Hawthorns are also associated with fertility, their musk-scented flowers blooming as harbingers of Spring. Their fruit ripens in time for Halloween, symbolizing death and rebirth. They stand as protectors, symbols of birth, death, and renewal, embodying a liminal space where exchanges occur between the human and spirit worlds. Continue reading
My aunty and uncle said we were too young to go to the Stardust yet, but promised that when I came up next time we could go, we would be both sixteen then. Continue reading
Books on Alan Joyce, cocaine purveyors…. Continue reading
The Scoil Gheimhridh Sydney 2024 is a long weekend of Irish language and craic. Come and
improve your Irish language skills. Continue reading
Music, dancing, classes, seminar paper, festivals…. Continue reading
I can’t think of many places where you might find Flann O’Brien cheek by jowl with Ange Postecoglou, Sr Liguori and Lord Craigavon’s tour of the Antipodes.’ Continue reading
At 38 years of age, Varadkar was Ireland’s youngest taoiseach. He was also its first mixed-race premier, its first government leader not to be a practising Catholic, and its first openly gay head of government. Continue reading
There have never been more people on the move than in our time. A few years ago the United Nations estimated the number of refugees at an astonishing 70 million. Yet close to 85% of these migrants end up not in Europe or North America but in developing Third-World countries. Continue reading
Fr Dan and his 40 years of service to First Nations people in the Kimberley. Continue reading
St.Brigid is now commemorated by so many events worldwide. I Continue reading
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