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This Week in the History of the Irish: April 13 - April 19

Posted by The Wild Geese on April 13, 2025 at 12:03pm 0 Comments

MÁIRT -- On April 15, 1848, in Dublin, Thomas Francis Meagher presented the tricolor national flag of Ireland to the public for the first time at a meeting of the Young Ireland Party. Meagher had recently gone to Paris with an Irish delegation sent to…

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LUSCIOUS LEMON CAKE FOR EASTER

Posted by Margaret M. Johnson on April 10, 2025 at 3:43pm 0 Comments

Avoca Cafés and restaurants, with 14 locations throughout Ireland from Mount Usher in County Wicklow to Moll’s Gap in County Kerry, serve luscious lunches, dreamy confections, and sweet treats to eat-in or to take- away. Even some of the best cooks in the country supplement their own baked goods…

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Desserts for St. Patrick’s Celebrations

Posted by Margaret M. Johnson on March 15, 2025 at 9:16am 0 Comments

            It may be a cliché, but everyone really is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day! Aran knits, tweed caps, and shamrock-emblazoned scarves come out of the closet on the 17th. If you’re cooking, that means your treasured Irish recipes emerge, too, ones that everyone loves and expects on the most celebratory day on the…

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Civil War General John “Black Jack” Logan: “The Radiant Incarnation of War.”

Posted by Joe Gannon on January 13, 2025 at 8:30pm 5 Comments

It was mid-afternoon of July 22, 1864, and the Confederate infantry of General Cheatham’s Corps of John Bell Hood’s Army of Tennessee was breaking through the Federal…

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Eulogy for Anne Devlin

Posted by Micheal O Doibhilin on September 25, 2014 at 4:21pm 3 Comments

At the Commemorative mass for Anne Devlin in St. Catherine's Church, Meath Street, Dublin on Sunday 14 September, 2014 I gave the following Eulogy:

"As we celebrate this decade of centenaries, it is easy to forget those who went before, and without whom many of these events would not have happened.

One such person was Anne Devlin, in…

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‘Full Irish’ Still the Best

Posted by Margaret M. Johnson on October 13, 2024 at 4:29pm 0 Comments

     In my latest cookbook, Delicious Ireland: Forty Years of Fabulous Food, I wrote about experiencing my first Irish breakfast: “We all treasured Ireland for reasons of our own, but none of us thought much about the food then — except breakfast, perhaps, when we would sit down with…

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The Heifer: A Pub Story

Posted by Colm Herron on October 4, 2016 at 11:30am 6 Comments

Most of the stuff in my novels comes from my imagination but I owe a fair amount of what I write to a pub called The Rocking Chair where there’s such a variety of characters that you’d need to be brain deaf not to pick up some nuggets. …



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Peach Perfect Dessert

Posted by Margaret M. Johnson on August 17, 2024 at 7:30am 0 Comments

            It’s peach season in most places around the country, a time for crisps, cobblers, pies, upside-down cakes, and these delicious baked peaches. No crust or crumble required, just stuff and bake for an easy, elegant dessert.

Baked…

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Ireland’s Roads Not (Often) Taken: “Inis Cealtra,” the Holy Island

Posted by Joe Gannon on July 27, 2024 at 10:30pm 6 Comments

Round Lough Derg's holy island I went upon the stones,

I prayed at all the Stations upon my marrow bones,

And there I found an old man, and though, I prayed all day

And that old man beside me, nothing would he say

From “The…

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Lady Liberty and the Tired, Poor Huddled Masses of Irish Famine Victims in one Ferry Ride

Posted by Lonnie on July 4, 2024 at 6:30pm 0 Comments

"Every civilization in this world built on top of the one they conquered. You go to Rome or Jerusalem or Paris, France, and it's cities stacked on top of towns, stacked on top of villages, stacked on top of one man's house built on top of one man's…

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