A music teacher once told me that instead of buying yet another bit of glitter, or knick knacks that remained forever unused, she always gave CDs of traditional music as Christmas presents. I’ve done the same since: stocking fillers that help keep music alive and don’t just fatten the coffers at Amazon. We’re coming close to Christmas now, […]
John Aidan Byrne interviews GELET FRAGELA, Cuban political refugee and journalist
‘These people are not a problem to be solved’
‘Narrow nationalists’ fought for our freedom
Nobody should predict what the US Supreme Court will, or will not do, as the Casey decision in 1992 demonstrates.
RTÉ Folk Award Nominee
‘Forget not the Boys (Kilmichael 100 years later)’ premieres this Sunday
A deep theological understanding and coherent orthodoxy should be the best foundation for good pastoral practice yet, Joseph Ratzinger/ Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who was such an outstanding exemplar of both, is often perceived as lacking in pastoral sensitivity, characterised as God’s stern Rottweiler or with even worse soubriquets. Yet, his great body of writing […]
Beidh cnuasach Fhinte na hÉireann dar teideal: ‘Éire Ghaelach 600 – 1700 A.D. , Tiarnas, Naoimh agus Léann’ i gcomhpháirtíocht le Buanchomhairle Thaoisigh Éireann, á sheoladh i gClub Éireannach, Club Fhaichne Stiabhna, Baile Átha Cliath, Dé hAoine beag seo, ag tosú trí Zúmáil ag 18:15. Is é an cnuasach ná toradh deiridh ar chomórtas aiste […]
This is America
Laoch mór
The former Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney, who died on hunger strike in 192, was awarded the Service Medal posthumously today.