Dr. Nicholas Grene, professor of English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin, lectured on J.M. Synge’s “Riders to the Sea” on September 17, 2013 at Hofstra University. Dr. Grene’s host was the Irish Studies Program co-directed by Dr.Maureen Murphy and Dr. Gregory Maney.
For his audience…
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I recently finished Gerard Cappa’s thriller, "Blood From a Shadow." If you had been with me at the time, you would have heard a loud exhale as the little readometer on my…
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Review: "That’s That", by Colin Broderick
reviewed by Eamon Loingsigh
Innocently, children ask for things contrary to the idiosyncratic rules of adults. When answered a flat “no” without explanation, a mysterious void can be felt in the mind.
Not as innocently, teenagers demand things…
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There is a link with Spain that is revealing itself. I was looking for a flamenco guitarist for for my Irish/Spanish musical. I scoured the web looking for people and came across a tapas bar that had flamenco guitar. I got an email and sent it off. A week passed and I wondered but decided to let it go. I got an email from an entertainment website where I have a profile because there were jobs matching me. I thought I would contact guitarist needs singer. Said nothing but…
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I recently did a photo shoot in aid of a wonderful charity called Forgotten Horses Ireland (www.ForgottenHorses.com). This organisation is strictly volunteer-run -- that is, every cent donated or raised by the charity goes directly to caring for these beautiful animals ...…
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Two round-trip tickets to Ireland will go to the most successful…
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Our thoughts go out to the Navy families and personnel who have lost loved ones at the Washington Navy Yard today. The Irish have long had a rich heritage with the Navy. The situation is still unfolding, but if you are close to or interested in the Navy, below are some articles we have researched and curated over the years, while you await more details. …
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MÁIRT -- On Sept. 17, 1860, units of the Irish Battalion of St. Patrick of the Papal army fought a Piedmontese army allied with Garibaldi at Spoleto. Spoleto was a walled city south of Florence with the fortress of Rocca on the side…
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I just recently came across these lovely colourised photos from circa 1930 which depict life as it was for most folks in Connemara and in the Claddagh area of Galway Town. What's striking, to me, is that the lifestyle shown would not have been much different even 100 years (or more) earlier! The conditions of rural Ireland all the…
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After watching the videos produced by Coláiste Lurgan in Connemara and posted here a few weeks ago, I think a few eyes have been opened. Any eyes who are still blind to the budding revival of the Irish…
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Colin Broderick's readings from and discussion of his memoir That's That held an audience of 61 Irish born and Irish Americans in rapt attention as he brought the audience at the Irish Cultural Society meeting into the turbulent North of the Troubles, the North of the first twenty years of his life. Meeting in the Garden City Library the evening of September 11,…
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Fifteen years ago, the Good Friday Agreement promised a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland. Today there is still no Bill of Rights, and human rights are under a severe and sustained attack.
Internment without charge or trial is back; “special” political offenses are being used to muzzle political activists; and the police have…
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The following is a transcript of the LIVE Wild Geese Community Chat hosted here at TheWildGeese.com on Sunday, September 8, 2013 with historian C. Michael (Mike) Harrington. Some editing has…
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Linen Hall Library Lord Charles Cornwallis had already lost one colony, and his reputation wouldn't survive the loss of another. |
LUAIN -- On September 8, 1798,…
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SEPTEMBER 1913
by William Butler Yeats
What need you, being come to sense,
But fumble in a greasy till
And add the ha’pence to the pence
And prayer to shivering prayer, until
You have dried the marrow from the bone;
For men were born to pray and save?,
Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,
It’s with…
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Roy Beggs Jr. responds to our Derek Warfield interview.
Editor's Note: Before publishing our…
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Derekwarfield.com. Derek's latest musical focus has been the music of the Irish in the American Civil War. Here (standing left), he dresses the part.… |
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