The Horse Racing industry also needs to come to terms with something: Just saying “it’s tradition” over and over won’t cut it.
A report from the Roman Province of Judea “I, Lucius Tacitus, write from the Province of Judea in the month of Aprilis, the XIX year of the reign of the August Caesar Tiberius. Events have come to pass in the Province this past month which must be brought to the attention of the August Caesar, Tiberius. The Province has long been an […]
Whittaker Chambers was one of the great hate figures of the American liberal left.
Today is the anniversary of the birth of Fay Stender in 1932 There is a little known but brilliant book, The Death of Uncle Joe, by Alison Macleod who worked for the British Communist Daily Worker in the 1940s and 1950s until eventually seeing sense and leaving. The book is well worth reading for its […]
Cuireadh chun báis é ar an 7ú lá déag de mhí Iúil 1929.
Bhunaigh an eagraíocht nuachtán poilitíochta náisiúnta- ‘An Náisiún
Rugadh é ar 10 Bealtaine 1884
Ar bhreacadh an lae, an 10 Meán Fómhair, 1847, dhúisigh muintir San Ángel, sráidbhaile ar imeall Chathair Mheicsiceo, le fuaim cairteacha ag cnagarnach isteach go plás an bhaile. Grúpa príosúnach Éireannach a bhí sna cairteacha sin. D’fhéach muintir an tsráidbhaile go ciúin ar cheann de na cairteacha ag tarraingt suas le taobh croiche, a tógadh […]
Idir 1937 agus 1946, bhí an scríbhneoir Máirtín Ó Cadhain ag obair faoi scéim de chuid An Gúm ag bailiú focal agus leaganacha cainte as Gaeltacht na Gaillimhe. Le linn na tréimhse sin, chuir Ó Cadhain breis agus aon mhilliún focal d’ábhar chuig An Gúm, agus sin in ord agus in eagar faoi bhreis agus […]
Sa bhliain 1844, tháinig aicíd nua ar na prátaí i Meiriceá Thuaidh. An aicíd dhubh a bhí ann. Níorbh fhada gur shroich sí an tír seo. I mí Mheán Fómhair na bliana 1845 tugadh faoi dheara í den chéad uair, i bPort Láirge agus i Loch Garman. Mí ina dhiaidh sin bhí sí tar éis […]
100 bliain ó shin, ar an 7 Márta 1923
the master guitarist from Chicago