Month: April 2021

I was quite amused to read the apparent concern about Sinn Fein using Facebook to target voters in Ireland apparently some of the other political parties such as Fine Gael in the 26 counties are quite indignant about this. Privacy of course is

The Irish Skipper here reports on the decline in the indigenous fishing community of Magheroarty, North Donegal and the tough life of those manning the few boats still working. The remaining boats keep alive a tradition that’s in the blood. There is a

On this day in 1949 the ‘Republic of Ireland Act was enacted and Ireland (26 Counties) severed its links with ‘The Commonwealth’. Image. Crowds on O’Connell Bridge Dublin Bernard Moffatt Assistant General Secretary Celtic League (18th April 2021)

The French Assembly has passed legislation described as a ‘historic breakthrough’ protecting minority language: https://nation.cymru/…/breton-campaigners-celebrate…/ In this article in the French magazine ‘Marianne’ journalist Natacha Polony comments on the development and says: “Learning minority languages ​​in schools does not threaten French, on the

“2021 marks 150 years since the birth of the playwright and poet John Millington Synge. “Synge’s life may have been short and tragic but it was lived to the full, driven by an open-minded, insatiable intellectual curiosity and respect for his fellow man

‘“An ancient tomb, described by archaeologists as “untouched” and “highly unusual” has been discovered on the Dingle Peninsula in Co Kerry. The tomb was uncovered in recent days during land improvement works being carried out by a farmer. The National Monument Service has

It’s been a quarter of a century since the border between the 6 and 26 counties of Ireland featured as a security issue however post Brexit it seems the uncertainties surrounding it are generating confused responses. The UK government of Boris Johnson seems

Agnes O’Farrelly (1874-1951) pictured was a pioneering academic, feminist, professor of Irish at University College Dublin (UCD), Irish language novelist and a founding member of Cumann na mBan, the Irish nationalist women’s organisation. She presided at the inaugural meeting of Cumann na mBan

John Newsinger author of The Blood Never Dried: A People’s History of the British Empire, writes in this review of the work: “When news of her father’s death reached Elizabeth Windsor on 6 February 1952, she was on holiday in Kenya. There is

Although women played an active role in the 1916 Easter Rising, carrying messages, tending the injured and also as quite effective snipers their role tended to be airbrushed out of the narrative. It is best epitomised by Elizabeth O’Farrell who carried the flag