Known as the fastest field game in the world, a sliotar can top 93mph from a good strike. Hurling is also mentioned in the 11th/ 12th century Leabhar na hUidre, while further descriptions are to be found in 13th/14th century romantic tale Cath Mhaigh Tuireadh Chunga. This latter account details a very bloody hurling game […]
ON THIS DAY: 3RD DECEMBER 1974: Maguire Seven charged with possessing materials for bomb making 40-year-old Irish born Anne Maguire, from North London, was convicted of possessing nitro-glycerine, which was then allegedly passed on for use to the IRA. Her husband, Patrick Maguire, 42 was also sentenced to 14 years imprisonment. Her two younger sons, […]
“Those lads don’t object to British Rule, so much as they object to Rule, full stop”.
That this is entirely cultural is obvious from the facts of it. Why is “monkey” considered offensive?
The Book of Kells contains lavishly decorated copy, in Latin, of the four gospels.
It behooves me, as a writer about politics and society, to try to analyse and make sense of these numbers for you, the public. But I’ll be honest: Buggered if I know what’s going on.
This type of immigration is in no ways comparable to the Irish moving to the wider English speaking world to integrate with people they have much in common.
In other words, if politicians really desired to alleviate the cost of commuting, they have a legion of possible avenues to do it.
None of this is a matter of race. It is as insane to import thousands of dark-skinned young men to live in abandoned office blocks as it would be to import thousands of light skinned young men to live in abandoned office blocks
What’s interesting is that this week, I haven’t heard an answer to any of them. I’ve heard a lot of people being called racists, though.
His surviving verses date from the period 565 and 604, and are among the earliest examples of Irish writing in the Latin alphabet.
It is elitism, and in Ireland, elitism is out of control.