His works have been translated into other languages
The Orient Express departs on its first official journey from Paris to Instanbul
Hunger strike ends
What RTE has in common with the Roman Catholic Church.
The Whiteboys (na Buachaillí Bána) were a secret Irish agrarian organisation which defended tenant farmer land rights for subsistence farming.
One of Daniel O’Connell’s so-called Monster Meetings took place in Mullaghmast in Kildare, calling for a repeal of the Act of Union. It was the latest in a series of meetings that took place through out the country in places such as Monaghan, Loughrea and Lismore. Such was the support and excitement surrounding the event, […]
Pope John Paul II visited Ireland from Saturday, 29 September to Monday, 1 October 1979, the first trip to Ireland by a pope. Over 2.5 million people attended events in Dublin, Drogheda, Clonmacnoise, Galway, Knock, Limerick, and Maynooth. It was one of John Paul’s first foreign visits as Pope, who had been elected in […]
“The other side are worse” cannot be an excuse for bad behaviour on your own side.
You wouldn’t get a platform on RTE to say what he just said. And neither, you’ll note, will he.
Father of, well, many of us.
In 1066 the course of British history changed forever when William, the Duke of Normandy, landed on the southern coast of England and seized the country from its Anglo-Saxon king Harold Godwinson. The French had a long history of claims in England, and in 1002 the English king Aethelred the Unready married the sister […]
Eventually, the scale of the problems created by liberalism and its prejudices allow people to overcome their fears about being called “far right”.