James Joyce was one of a long list of great writers who failed to win the Nobel Prize for Literature: Ibsen, Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Zola, Hardy, Henry James, August Strindberg…. Continue reading
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Ulster Historical Foundation Irish Family History Lecture Tour
Whether you are just beginning your Irish research or have been at it for years, you won’t want to miss these workshops.
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The Opal and the Pearl by Mark Patrick Hederman OSB
With seven billion human beings on one planet we need a new ethics guiding us in our way of relating to one another sexually.
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Irish History Circle on 24 April at 7.30pm
Irish History Circle – The Secret History of Dublin’s Streets and Cathal Brugha Continue reading
Sunlight & Shadow – A Book Launch, Talk and Concert
This delightfully eclectic book brings together in one fascinating volume bits of knowledge, history, insights and colour from a huge – and wide variety of original sources Continue reading
Mary Kenneally at Brigidfest
Is comedy serious? Mary Kenneally on the risks and adventures of a life in comedy Continue reading
The Irish History Circle
The most vexing Fenian.
Revolutionary and Conservative Impossible to love; Impossible to hate. Continue reading
The Sadness Of Dr Mannix
for him nothing remotely matched these Irish events in importance. Continue reading
Centenary of Archbishop Mannix’s ‘Trade-War’ Speech
Come to the centenary re-enactment of the speech, by noted actor Rod Quantock. Continue reading
The 2016 Kathleen Fitzpatrick History Lecture
This lecture will examine the Rising from two perspectives: as a ‘theatre of war’ and as re-enactment. Continue reading
