John McGuirk wrote on the 11th March of the limitless cynicism of Clare Daly on the Ukraine, where she criticizes ‘the West’s’ obsession with the Ukraine crisis. He notes that she has form in deflecting criticism from Russia and taking a selective approach to the different western obsessions – for example, not criticising similar asymmetric […]
Irish donors have been giving to an online fund for Native Americans as a thank you for the relief sent by the Choctaws during the Great Hunger of 1845-47. The organisers of an online fundraising campaign raising funds for Navajo and Hopi families say that some “of our recent donations for our GoFundMe campaign have […]
Eavan Boland, who was one of Ireland’s best-loved poets, has died in her home in Dublin, aged 75. Boland was a pioneering figure in Irish poetry and was Professor of Humanities and Director of the Creative Writing Programme at Stanford University from 1996 to her death. Widely published and studied, one of her best-known poems […]