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Grace Gifford was born in Dublin on the 4th March 1888. She was the second youngest of 12 children born to Frederick Gifford, a Catholic, and Isabella Julia Burton, a protestant. Grace and her sisters attended Alexandra College in Earlsfort Terrace. At age 16, Grace went to the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, where she […]
‘These people are not a problem to be solved’
Saint Finnian of Clonard was a member of Clanna Rudhraighe from the Ulaid in the vicinity of New Ross. According to some sources, Finnian studied for a time at the monastic centre of Martin of Tours in Gaul. Tours was noted for its austerity. He later went to Wales and continued his studies at the […]
Radical powers
On this night, the Black and Tans burnt Cork City Centre with a devastating series of fires that swept through the city centre; looted businesses, assaulted firefighters and shot at the local population. The burning and the subsequent controversy is one of the most significant events of the Irish War of Independence; on the day […]
Mealy-mouth apology not enough
The inability to freely socialise at school, and the encroachment on children’s liberties by the state, is harming children.
Pain of Late-Term Abortion
Killian Foley-Walsh looks at Ireland’s approach to COVID-19 and feels L’Internationale swell in his chest.
Growing prevalence of eugenic-based abortion
We have to remove them one by one