This day 103 years ago – 8 June 1917 – an explosion in a copper mine in Butte, Montana, resulted in the death of 168 miners. 38 of them were from Ireland, by far the largest group of foreign-born workers. The fire in the Speculator Granite Mountain Mine shocked America and is still the worst […]
It is not the “far right” that is creating these winners and losers, but our own Irish Government.
Ó Néill was a Gaelic Irish soldier and one of the most famous of the O’Neill dynasty of Ulster in Ireland.
Affinity with the Church as a community institution is much stronger than affinity with the Church as a religious institution.
Far from being censured for the massacre, Duff upon his arrival in Dublin the following day, was feted as a hero by the British establishment who honoured him with a victory parade
His Cambridge supervisor Geoffrey Elton came to consider him as the brightest of all his pupils.
The Céide fields in Ballycastle, Co Mayo, date back 5,500 years, making them the world’s oldest field systems, with a complex of walls, houses and tombs, protected beneath a bog and is the largest Stone Age site on the planet. It is the most extensive Neolithic site in Ireland. Discovered in the 1930s by schoolteacher […]
Tattoos trivialise permanent things and permanentise trivial things
Joan’s death inspired many Frenchmen to continue her legacy
There’s a difference in other words between high status lunacy and low status lunacy.
If you believe it is nonsense, you have a duty to say so, even if it makes some grown man cry in his dress.
It’s the classic Irish political solution – do somethingism