“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 […]
“You must not grieve for all this. We have preserved Ireland’s honour and our own”
Children continue to be victimized by practices and policies that prioritize adult desires above children’s rights.
A banking crisis Unfolding?
Is pregnancy really just an extreme sport with a high death rate?
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.
His glib remarks are an embarrassment to thinking Canadians
What is the future of mifepristone? The Supreme Court may be forced into making another tough decision
Two power-hungry generals are ignoring the welfare of civilians
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.
Start of ‘gigantic’ movement
In April 1943 German forces surrounded the Warsaw Ghetto – the Jewish quarter they had created – in preparation for its final liquidation.