This day 103 years ago – 8 June 1917 – an explosion in a copper mine in Butte, Montana, resulted in the death of 168 miners.
Finding what is authentic
Ó Néill was a Gaelic Irish soldier and one of the most famous of the O’Neill dynasty of Ulster in Ireland.
Such an exemplary attitude should be admired and imitated by all artists.
TERRY McMAHON on the death of his mother: “It was a Saturday when they told us she wouldn’t make another day and it was time to say our farewells.”
“The Presidency should be a source of national ambition.”
Far from being censured for the massacre, Duff upon his arrival in Dublin the following day, was feted as a hero by the British establishment who honoured him with a victory parade
The Céide fields in Ballycastle, Co Mayo, date back 5,500 years, making them the world’s oldest field systems, with a complex of walls, houses and tombs, protected beneath a bog and is the largest Stone Age site on the planet. It is the most extensive Neolithic site in Ireland. Discovered in the 1930s by schoolteacher […]
His Cambridge supervisor Geoffrey Elton came to consider him as the brightest of all his pupils.
DR ANTHONY COUGHLAN gives 7 reasons why he believes the Triple Lock and our neutrality should be retained.
Through its strong global cultural image, Ireland is one of the most identifiable countries in the world, something which ought to inspire political self-confidence.
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