Scríbhneoir, file, saighdiúir agus polaiteoir ab ea Brian Ó hUiginn ar a dtugtar Brian na Banban freisin, a bhí ina bhall bunaitheach de Shinn Féin agus a bhí mar Uachtarán ar an eagraíocht ó 1931 go 1933. Rugadh Brian i 1882, an duine ab óige de cheithre leanbh dhéag d’fheirmeoirí beaga i gCill Scíre, Contae […]
The Decade of Centenaries Programme that was initiated in 2012 and which is set to end in 2023 has allowed us to revisit and to celebrate some of the great milestones of Irish history. These include the foundation of the Irish Volunteers, the Home Rule and Land Bills, the 1913 Lockout, the 1916 Rising, the […]
Easter is perhaps the most important time of the year to remember those who fought for our freedom, and by commemorating the past, we look forward to the future. We celebrate the various battles in the fight for Irish Freedom and recall with pride the ultimate price paid by many of those involved. For Christians, […]
Pro-life crowds gathered at NYC’s International Gift of Life Walk to make their voices heard
Colm Meaney writes on Holy Week in the Philippines
Frank Furedi, a British emeritus professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, prolific author and established social commentator, has mapped the history of what we now call identity politics in his latest book. In it he traces the century long evolution of theory and behaviour that in some ways is also a recycling of perennial issues in […]
Foilsíodh plean cúig bliana le déanaí chun úsáid na Gàidhlig a mhéadú agus an teanga a chur chun cinn i nGlaschú. Is é fís an phlean ná “Faoi 2028 beidh an Ghàidhlig níos so-aimsithe, níos forleithne, níos feiceálaí agus níos ceiliúrtha i nGlaschú ná in aon chathair eile ar domhan. Táthar ag súil go n-éireoidh […]
FEATURED CD for Easter 2020 is the chart-topping album from Celi Dé, starting with this gorgeous piece written and performed for Palm Sunday by Trian Ó Riordan and Colm Mannion. www.celide.ie
Two set dances
One of my favorite things about being a dad is getting to introduce the books I read as a boy to my own children. Just recently, we’ve read through Little House in the Big Woods, Little House on the Prairie, and Heidi with our four-year-old, and with the exception of the moment where Peter the goatherd smashes Clara’s wheelchair, which […]
Was Smith right to be angry? Sure, he was.
In Dublin this year