A Galway man, with Norman and Spanish blood, coursing and cursing through his veins, he could cant and gammer with horse traders Continue reading
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From the Papers
Snippets from the newsrooms. Continue reading
Back Home in Derry
In those times, in that place – it is never referred to as Stratford – the names Hamnet and Hamlet are interchangeable, each written or spoken to indicate the same person. Continue reading
Congratulations
Two new OAM recipients with connection to Tintean Continue reading
Recalling Dorothy Day
The Pope named her with Lincoln, Martin Luther King and Thomas Merton as four great Americans. Continue reading
From The Papers
Short items from past four weeks. Continue reading
Hospital Pass
Your partners are your long-time opponents, there’s a pandemic, there is noise on you backbench … and then there are the Greens. Who would want to be Taoiseach? Continue reading
Two Irish Contributions to Australia
This impressive work tells us the story of two exceptional personalities, Curtin and Scullin, it is also, in a most profound manner, the story of the movement they nurtured, the Australian Labor movement. Continue reading
Poetry by Michael Boyle
The only 1916 rebel to be given a state funeral Continue reading
Two Novels by Jane Casey
An Post Crime Novel of the Year 2019 in first of two books by Dubliner Jane Casey Continue reading