After more years than I care to count, Kieran has resurfaced. The last time I saw him, it was raining; it was one of those gray Galway days on New Castle Road, and I’d sleuthed Kieran out, after swearing to Adrian I’d never tell who had told me where I…
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It's not easy to follow your passion. It's a terrifying thing to take that step, to put yourself out there, to make yourself vulnerable. But it's liberating too.
For my whole life, my first love has been Ireland- her history, her culture. I've traveled there and filled my bookshelves with books that take me back to a place I…
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I would have known I am Irish had I been adopted at birth by a family with a different nationality. Sooner or later, I would have woken up to the fact by simply paying attention to the way I am wired. It’s the little things within us that tell us who we are, the things that we are born with, that…
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A few days before St. Patrick's Day in 2003, I purchased a beautiful six-piece dessert set of fine bone china from a local shop. As the shop owner carefully packed it up, I read the bottom of one of the tea cups: "Royal Tara-fine bone china-made in Ireland."
I bought the set because it was gorgeous. But knowing it came from Ireland made it even more special to me. At the time, I'd never been to Ireland and my father, Edwin, who died in 2001, had never been to Ireland either. But he…
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Book Review
"Belfast Days: A 1972 Teenage Diary," by Eimear O’Callaghan
Merrion Press
Copyright 2014
"Belfast Days: A 1972…
ContinueAdded by The Last Torch on February 16, 2015 at 12:30am — 8 Comments
One of my brothers in Ireland gifted me a book entitled …
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With apologies to my mother for the headline.
I met a new friend last year. He once had a good job in the private sector but fell into trouble, lost his job and put his home in jeopardy. His newfound interest in debt propelled him into a filmic…
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Whether or not it is true, I have long been of the opinion that God never intended cabbage for human consumption. The rubbery leaves seem more suited to adorn the bottom of brogues than to be cooked up alongside more edible sustenance. I kid, of course, but I truly never have…
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Book Review
"Against the Wind", by J.A. O'Brien
Reviewer: Michael Halpenny
The full title of this book is "Against the Wind: Memoir of a Dissident Dubliner." However, this is not the diary of someone strenuously opposed to the Good Friday Agreement,…
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Book review
"Annie's Stories," by Cindy Thompson
Tyndale House Publishers Inc.
Carol…
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I purchased a copy of “In the Tracks of the West Clare Railway” by Eddie Lenihan on a visit to my native County Clare. If there was ever a book that needed writing this is it. No better man than Eddie to do the job. This is not a short list of boring facts and figures such as we were accustomed in history books going to school. No, this is a 319-page account of…
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Book Review
"The Decline and Fall of the Dukes of Leinster, 1872–1948"
by Terrence Dooley…
Added by Fr. John R. Sheehan, SJ on November 5, 2014 at 8:00pm — No Comments
The bard of Avon, William Shakespeare, once said:
"All the world's a stage and each must play his part."
How right he was! He knew, and tried to forewarn us, that…
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in debt for a thousand euro is worried, but that when a man is in debt for a million, then the bank is worried.
Or it used to be like that. Now the odds are that someone has to be in debt for a multiple of that…
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Book review
"Loughrea, ‘That Den of Infamy’ The Land War in County Galway, 1879–82", by Pat Finnegan
224 pages; illustrated.
Available Now
Retail Price: €14.95/€35.0
Review by Ronnie O’Gorman, Chairman of the Galway Advertiser…
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Book Review
"The Decline and Fall of the Dukes of Leinster, 1872–1948
by Terrence Dooley
304 pages with colour…
Added by Anthony Tierney on September 24, 2014 at 10:00am — 3 Comments
"The Loneliest Boy In The World"
Gearóid Cheaist Ó Catháin with Patricia Ahern (Collins Press, 2014)
Review by Felicity Hayes-McCoy.
At the westernmost end of Ireland’s Dingle peninsula,…
ContinueAdded by The Wild Geese on September 17, 2014 at 7:00am — 1 Comment
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