Brits in no mood to compromise over immigration
“There’s nobody living that can tell anyone where to put the grace notes,” Joe Éinniú once told an interviewer. The best songs had to be learned over years of listening, and sung with great passion and deep feeling. He preferred the laments – Caoineadh na dTrí Mhuire, Anach Chuain, Úna Bhán – the great Conamara […]
Spectacular hoard
“You must not grieve for all this. We have preserved Ireland’s honour and our own”
A British inquiry did not recommend charges and the killings were largely forgotten given the scale of the Rising deaths.
The Count was offered a pardon from all his crimes by the Anglican Bishop of Meath, Bishop Jones, if he testified against the Catholic priests.
Greater authority?
Earlier this month, Mokgweetsi Masisi, the president of Botswana, offered to send Germany 20,000 of his country’s elephants. He was reacting to the German government’s plan to restrict the importation, by German hunters, of hunting trophies from Africa. “This is not a joke,” the president reportedly said of his offer Mr Masisi may not have […]
The story of Roger Casement’s landing and capture at Banna Strand in Kerry as he attempted to bring arms ashore for the 1916 Rising, is commemorated in the famed ballad Banna Strand.
Plantation and survival
Start of ‘gigantic’ movement
The Cass Review, an independent review of NHS England’s gender identity services for children and young people has been published. The Countess welcomes this comprehensive investigation into the gender identity service that provided treatment to children and adolescents who experienced distress relating to their bodies. The review has ramifications for Ireland because the HSE used […]