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the House of Commons voted a customs border between UK and NI. Meanwhile, goods can freely cross the border between NI and the Republic. Continue reading
For some years, he was in dispute with his bishop and had to say Mass in his own house. A true peacemaker. Continue reading
New rules for advertising of alcohol. The Rathkeale Rovers and the Gardai do Jerusalema. Continue reading
By Albert Perris Growing up in Tallaght in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a frequent if irregular sight was that of the local hermit, recluse or ‘eccentric’ as he was variously referred to, walking down the length of Seskin View Road. He was a familiar sight known throughout Tallaght and district, and had been … Continue reading
Growing up with Yeats, and making the pilgrimage to find him. Continue reading
The poem begins with a recognition of the unbroken chain (slabhra) from the celtic Brigid to the abbess who built her own convent in Kildare, to a modern day Brigid taking care of her family, and through to the writer, the poet. Continue reading
Recently he investigated a kind of mondegreen, but of a more sophisticated nature. Here are David’s musings on the macaronic song ‘Siúil a rúin’ and the ongoing puzzle of one of the line endings: Continue reading
Can you make you make an online event work? Can you evoke some of the major emotions and experiences online, that you have experienced live? Continue reading
Two new women writers and a story from early New York with an Irish background Continue reading
She was the first woman elected to the House of Commons. Her funeral was one of the biggest Dublin has seen. Continue reading
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