Tórramh Art Uí Laoghaire Revives Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill’s Great Lament
His vision of unity, non-sectarianism and critical thinking relevant to modern Irish politics
Armed with poles and boiling water
“Stop looking out the window”, a teacher told her little pupil. “I’m not looking out the window”, he replied, “I’m thinking.” Thinking, or more appropriately thinking logically and objectively, is undervalued in the Irish education system. So with thinking exempted from Irish schools, unlike the UK, France, Morocco and other countries where philosophy and critical […]
A little known but brilliant book by Alison Macleod, who worked for the British Communist Daily Worker in the 1940s and 1950s
New campaign to use the original Irish placenames
He was an accomplished piper and athlete with a keen interest in all things Gaelic and cultural
Joseph Plunkett was executed on May 4th 1916, with William Pearse, Edward Daly and Michael O’Hanrahan, for their role in the Easter Rising
Éinniú understood the history behind the songs
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.
Cuilceach beag millte
Fear a chreid “i gcumhacht na filíochta”