t wasn’t so much that I went to school, but rather that school came to me. In every single waking moment of my life school surrounded me. I never could escape from it. I breathed school air. I heard school sounds. I saw school everywhere. I felt the school pumping in my blood. How could this be? Continue reading
Bloomsday events in Melbourne. Continue reading
Different items that caught our attention Continue reading
One hundred years ago this month, Ireland found that it had to deal with former comrades fighting and killing each other. Continue reading
Two new writers and one well established. Continue reading
One hundred years ago, former comrades in the Irish fight for freedom turned their guns on each other. Continue reading
History tells us that when the stakes were substantial, Pitch and Toss games could become extremely serious. In Dundalk in 1914 a man died following an altercation during a game of Pitch and Toss when an argument arose as to who was entitled to the winnings. Continue reading
Daniel Kinahan back in the news and so is Russia Continue reading
One of Ireland’s best-known writers and his take on the years since he was born in 1958 Continue reading
Three recent novels with Irish authors or Irish themes. Continue reading
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