the opportunity to learn, to improve and to speak the Irish language in the most congenial of surroundings, with the most dedicated teachers. Continue reading
Posted in January 2018 …
Ath bhliain faoi mhaise daoibh go léir!
The year 2018 has been deemed Bliain na Gaeilge, (Irish Language Year). Continue reading
Stories from the Visitors’ Book
the title of the visitors’ book is significant. According to Professor Patrick O’Farrell, the mission adopted the practice of calling itself the ‘Irish Legation’ to further emphasise its distinctive status Continue reading
A Foot-soldier’s Misgivings about 1916
What is so refreshing about this narrative of the Easter Rising is its clear-eyed honesty about how ill-prepared the insurgents were to take on the British. Continue reading
When ‘Fenian’ meant ‘Terrorist’
A Book Review by Frank O’Shea Steve Harris. THE PRINCE AND THE ASSASSIN. Australia’s First Royal Tour and Portent of World Terror. Melbourne Books, 2017. 326 pp. ISBN: 9781925556131 RRP: $32.95 If someone from a Muslim country were to shoot an Australian politician today, that person would almost certainly be called a terrorist. And just as … Continue reading
Keep me singing, Keep me real.
Book Review by Hugh Vaughan Gerald Dawe. In Another World: Van Morrison and Belfast. Merrion Press, Dublin Nov 2017. h/b 134 pp ISBN: 9781785371462 RRP: €11.99 And then from outside the frosty window raps She jumps up and says, Lord, have mercy I think it’s the cops And immediately drops everything she gots Down into the … Continue reading
Global Irish Newsletter
All these events are indicative of the huge breadth of work that the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is engaged in to support Irish communities worldwide. Continue reading
The Life We Missed
A Book review by Frank O’Shea Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen. Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling Gill Books, Dublin. 293 pp. ISBN: 9780717175536 RRP: €14.99 Here is a book to make any reader over 50 realise how out-of-touch with modern life (s)he is. And we are not talking about an inability to understand the … Continue reading
The Mass
On the hill, the church.
Simple, practical, not ornate. Continue reading
Catching The Moment
A story by Michael Boyle ‘There’s a cow in a hole. Come quick!’ ‘Where? Where is it?’ I asked. ‘Between the middle lane and Mayogall’, said my sister Marie. ’Get there before her head goes under the water!’ In the late 1980s my wife Annette and our young son Patrick were back visiting my parents’ … Continue reading
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