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Posted in November 2021 …
The ‘Contraceptive Train’ and Dr Caroline De Costa
This brave act of defiance, with Caroline as part of the group, paved the way for discussions about access to contraception in the ROI and particularly highlighted the need to start exploratory discussions on the provision of contraception for Irish women living there. Continue reading
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Fiche bliain i nGaeltacht Laimbé agus Ráth Chairn: Twenty years in the Lambay-Rathcairn Gaeltacht
What we seldom see in print, though, are those individuals stories from the Lambay-Rathcairn Gaeltacht experiment that point to another kind of success. Éamonn Ó Neachtain is one such person. Continue reading
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The Cleansing of Molly Bloom
This is the story of an elderly lady who was afflicted with a very delicate conscience… Continue reading
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Ghosts of Irish-Australia: Barnaby Fitzpatrick
Nobody wanted to know convicts in early British settlement of Australia and now family historians are eager to find a connection to a convict in their family tree. How times have changed. Continue reading
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A Poem from Diane Fahey
Yet fifty years later
Seán Ó Conaill could tell, word for word,
a story he’d heard, as a boy,
read from a journal. Continue reading
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From the papers
Snippets from Irish Newspapers Continue reading
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Looking for Paddy Moriarty
This book by two Darwin-based journalists, is a comprehensive account of the mystery of Paddy Moriarty’s disappearance. Continue reading
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Less and More than a Star Called Henry
A graphic life of Ernie O’Malley and a an account of the divided loyalties after the signing of the Treaty… Continue reading
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New Irish Fiction
More new Irish fiction reviewed by Frank O’Shea. Gay detectives, dying with dementia, campus life at Trinity, rape-crime and legal trickery. Continue reading
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