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10 March 2010
NAME something you would look at and say: this is Irish, this is part of what we are or where we came from, this is part of our heritage, this is something to be proud of.<
03 March 2010
THE death Liam Clancy at the age of 74, on 4 December 2009, has brought to an end an extraordinary journey, which I feel I could not let pass without comment. This article is dedicated to the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, all resting in peace.
24 February 2010
BY WILLIE WHITE
BEFORE detailing the Doolough tragedy, which took place in southwest Mayo during the Great Famine, perhaps a brief explanation of the Irish Poor Laws would be a help.
17 February 2010
RECESSION is here again. And, as before, the levies and the cuts are flying.
10 February 2010
BRENDAN Francis Behan was born in the Meath Hospital, Dublin, on 9 February 1923.
03 February 2010
IN THE 17th century, the Jacobites set out to restore the Stuart king to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland.
27 January 2010
On 12 January 2010 at 04.15 local time, a massive earthquake measuring seven on the Richter Scale occurred in the Republic of Haiti, with its epicentre just 20 miles west-southwest of the capital, Port-au-Prince, at a depth of 8.1 miles.
20 January 2010
BY WILLIE WHITE
WATCHING television over the festive season, I have to beg the question: what is going on? Are directors of programming on both RTÉ and TV3 watching what they are broadcasting?
13 January 2010
BY WILLIE WHITE
GOD forgive me, but I am arts illiterate and would find it difficult to distinguish between a real painting and a highly artistic photograph.
06 January 2010
BY WILLIE WHITE
AT 10.57am on 11 November 1918, at Villesur-Haine, Belgium, 35year-old Canadian soldier, Private George Lawrence Price, was shot by a German sniper.




 



 

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