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The benefits of religion to mental health are well documented and its positive impact during the pandemic has been confirmed by a number of recent studies. Covid-19 has had a profound effect on our lives. Significant moments such as baptisms, first communions, weddings, were postponed due to the restrictions imposed by the government. Many could […]
Millions either died or emigrated as a result of the catastrophic failures of the authorities
Pádraig Mac Piarais founded St. Enda’s (Scoil Éanna) in Rathfarnham. St. Enda’s was to have an “Irish standpoint and ‘atmosphere’” and be based on what Pearse saw as the two key characteristics of the ancient Irish system of education: freedom for the individual student and inspirational teaching. He wrote later in his essay on education […]
These laws sowed the seed for further discontent and rebellion.
Grace O’Malley (Gráinne Ní Mháille) demanded the release of her son, who had been imprisoned by Richard Bingham, Governor of Connacht. Elizabeth agreed, and Bingham was recalled to England. Grace was born in 1530 into the Ó Máille dynasty in the west of Ireland; the daughter of Eoghan Dubhdara Ó Máille. She is well-known historical […]
Background Bunreacht na hÉireann became the fundamental legal code of the Irish nation-state in 1937 and has since been amended over thirty times. These amendments reflect the Nation’s, underlying, collective psyche as it evolves over time and under the pressure of modernity. Ranging from the acceptance of the European Union’s (EU) legal supremacy, to the […]
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St. Ultan was the Bishop of Ardbraccan, near Navan, in Meath in the seventh century. His feast day is the 4th September. His life and death is recorded in most of the Annals and in the Martyrology of Aengus. Ardbraccan (Irish “Hill of Breacan”) is an ancient place of Christian worship taking its name possibly from a […]
Oliver Cromwell, the butcher of Drogheda, died on this day in 1658, having suffered a painful end from a urinary tract infection that caused blood poisoning. Three years after he died, his body was exhumed and ceremonially hanged in chains, and then thrown into a pit, so that his enemies could be sure that he […]