Today is the anniversary of the birth of Albert Camus in 1913 Albert Camus, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957, was an early left critic of Marxist totalitarianism. He had been a member of the Communist Party of France and the Communist Party of Algeria in the1930s but rejected both the philosophy […]
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Today is the anniversary of the birth of Doris Lessing in 1919
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An inquest into the death of Denis McKennedy, a labourer working on a relief scheme at Caheragh near Skibbereen, found that he had ‘died of starvation due to the gross negligence of the Board of Works” He had been owed three weeks wages when he died at the side of the Road and the results […]
Fr Brendan Kilcoyne on vocations crisis
Today is the anniversary of the death of Liam O’Flaherty in 1984 Liam O’Flaherty is occasionally cited by Irish socialists as one of their own. His early membership of the Communist Party of Ireland, (he was editor of its newspaper Workers’ Republic for a time), and participation in the comic opera occupation of the Rotunda […]
Sa bhliain 2000, vótáladh Nagle mar Bhean Éireannach na Mílaoise, “mar aitheantas ar a tábhacht mar cheannródaí in oideachas na mban in Éirinn.”
But what if it all backfires?
Today is the anniversary of Hamish Fraser’s Birth in 1913
Today is the anniversary of the death of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 2008 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature almost 50 years ago, in October 1970. While few people could tell you who the latest laureate is, Solzhenitsyn’s elevation dominated the news globally in 1970. It was a major embarrassment to the Brezhnev regime […]
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