You’ll never beat the Irish establishment if your starting point is that you’re better and more patriotic than they are.
“If I die I know the fruit will exceed the cost a thousand fold.”
Being welcoming to migrants is not just a political view in Ireland, but something deeply engrained on our national self-image.
It’s not actually shocking, it’s just deadly dull.
Ireland has a Government whose mouth writes cheques its ass can’t cash.
The festival will run over 5 days and will feature over 200 artists.
It was composed “early in 1910 or late in 1909”, words by Peadar Kearney
The truth is, nobody knows what these exams are for, any more. And increasingly, it seems, Government doesn’t care.
Paul Murphy, celebrating, as well he might.
He was an Irish priest and scholar, and a key figure in the Gaelic revival of the late 19th century.
The Nation was an Irish nationalist weekly newspaper, published in Dublin in the 19th century. It was founded by Charles Gavin Duffy, Thomas Davis & John Blake Dillon who at the time were part of Daniel O’Connell’s repeal association. #gript
Fr. O’Shea’s family had been evicted from their own home when he was a baby himself.