. To this day, we have a saying in Irish ‘Bhí togha gacha bí agus rogha gacha dí le fail ann’, The finest of every food and the choice(st) of every drink was to be had there. This is believed to originally date from bards of one to two thousand years ago. As a chieftain or king, one’s reputation had to be maintained, or enhanced and these ‘songs of praise’, so to speak, were pivotal in this regard. Continue reading
. At a charity event, in the Wicklow mountains, Martin Byrne was faced with the task of feeding 1,500 people (no, that’s not a typo) with Colcannon. What did he do? Well, I’ll tell you. Continue reading
Vermeer would have made much of it Continue reading
The Statement from the Heart won this year’s Australian international peace prize, the Sydney Peace Prize, from 200 nominations. Continue reading
The Lake School in Koroit goes online in 2021. Enrol for classes in fiddle, whistle, pipes, harp, flute, guitar, ukulele, bodhran, singing, dancing, Paddy Fitzgerald’s Irish Music Class, Irish session tunes, cello, poetry. PLUS special events – Paddy Fitzgerald’s CD launch, Mark and Lisa McDonnell’s Slow Session, Tutors Concert, Blackboard Concert, Spud Poets Night, Stars on The … Continue reading
‘Thought I’d come for one year but I’ve made life long friends’ Continue reading
We are planning a fairly informal get together – hopefully lots of talk, and a few drinks and perhaps some nibbles Continue reading
John D. Ruddy, is very good taking a subject that kids find dull and withdrawing them from their devices. Continue reading
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