Added by Lonnie on December 9, 2015 at 5:00pm — 5 Comments
Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut, has just published four new folios of research into the period of The Irish Famine under the collective title Famine Folios.
These compelling essays take a fresh and…
ContinueAdded by Brian Nolan on November 9, 2015 at 6:00am — 3 Comments
I desire silence. I want to be free from the noise that humans make. I fear I will never be free from this noise. I'm often in the woods and I still hear a car that is miles away or a plane flying overhead. And even my own sighing and thoughts can become too noisy. The sounds of…
ContinueAdded by Cynthia Neale on December 6, 2013 at 10:30am — 3 Comments
I had occasion to visit Dan O’Hara’s hillside farm in Connemara recently as part of my work as a tour guide, work that takes me all over the country. The owner Martin Walsh, a natural born storyteller captivated the group with the story of how the unfortunate farmer ended up in New York and sang the sad song which told of his misfortune.…
ContinueAdded by Rónán Gearóid Ó Domhnaill on July 18, 2013 at 3:30am — 11 Comments
Margaret Thatcher's passing yesterday brings to mind a very stormy period in Anglo-Irish relations, the period of The Hunger Strikes [CAIN Web Service], which Dame Thatcher oversaw. The protest began with Bobby Sands' decision…
ContinueAdded by The Wild Geese on April 9, 2013 at 12:30pm — 6 Comments
They came from all over the city, down by subway from Inwood, and the Bronx, over the bridges and through the tunnels from Queens and Brooklyn, or by ferry in from Staten Island.
Photo left, front page of New York-based The Irish World's…
ContinueAdded by The Wild Geese on January 19, 2013 at 1:30am — 1 Comment
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