Higgin’s pro-abortion stance may have lost him voters, but the Irish President has never shied away from speaking out on controversial issues, even if it made him unpopular. Continue reading
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Delia Murphy ‘Ballad Queen’ 1902-1971
Everywhere Delia Murphy went she collected – from the servants at home, from the travellers in the lane, from fishermen, from the blacksmith. Continue reading
From the Papers
Snippets from the Irish newspapers. Continue reading
Socialist Countess
Meg McNena’s new play about Constance Markievicz constitutes an epic story of women’s engagement in politics. Continue reading
The Importance of the Gaelic Revival
Their literature, their games, their religion and certainly their language existed at a higher level than anything the locals had to offer. 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
THE GOVERNMENT’S FIRST TEN DAYS
The new and different Irish Coalition Government has presided over the first significant relaxation of lockdown, but it will be a considerable time before the Economy scrambles back to any semblance of normality. Continue reading
The Arms Crisis Revisited and Revised
In the Arms Crisis of 1970, questions abounded, of perjury and all other kinds of skullduggery. Continue reading
Soldier of the Irish Republic
‘The Facts are that the Irish Republic exists.’ Continue reading
Celebrating Irish Feminism
A fascinating history of how feminism and nationalism converged to challenge traditional gender binaries at some key points in modern Irish history Continue reading
