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Shirley Collado Shirley M. Collado, who became Ithaca College’s president amid student protests over racism and led the private New York institution during a messy period of pandemic-era financial turmoil, announced on Thursday she would resign. In January she will become president and chief executive officer of College Track, a nonprofit that aims to help underrepresented students get through college. Her four-year tenure at Ithaca is the shortest presidency in its 129-year history. Higher-e...

The American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars donated $70,000 to the Somerville Museums $2.25 million capital campaign.

Tipperary Mid West Radio Former Caulfields Supervalu, Bank Place, Tipperary Town has been sold to an undisclosed buyer (Image: Catherine Fogarty @ TMWR) In a press release, Tipperary County Council confirmed that it was not involved in the recent sale or the purchase of the former Supervalu (formerly Caulfield’s Supervalu) site at Bank Place, Tipperary Town. The statement explained that this was a private sale by the owners of the site, and therefore any query about the sale ...

Then and Now: Our debt to Sean lives on Reporter: 14 Apr 2021 Minister Niall Collins lays a wreath at the grave of Sean Finn on the 100th anniversary of his death. A memorial service was organised for Sean Finn by the Rathkeale GAA club );  ); WE CONTINUE on from last week the story of Irish Volunteer Sean Finn who lost his life, in the fight against the Black and Tans at Ballaroe, Ballyhahill 100 years ago. A strong wind was blowing the sound away from where the other Volunteers were billet...

Brian Hanley 32 min read During July 1921 Count George Noble Plunkett, Dáil minister for foreign affairs, wrote a long letter to Éamon de Valera. In it Plunkett warned the Sinn Féin leader that republicans should be wary of too close a relationship with ‘the Jews’. Across Europe, Plunkett asserted, Jews had been a negative influence, because (1) they are, an...

Matt Scutchfield worked on starting a music school in Ukraine, where the cosmopolitan aura of Europe made him feel most at home. But as word of the coronavirus started to spiral last February, he packed his violin and Ukrainian string instrument and caught a $150 flight with a zig-zag schedule back to Indiana. He quickly found himself inside of a performing venue called Wild Rose Moon, a roughly 150-year-old storefront at the center of his hometown, Plymouth, where he played Polish and Ukrainia...

Dysart Cemetery on the Castleisland to Farranfore Road doesnt get a lot of attention these days in terms of funerals or ceremonies of any kind. On the most recent St. Stephens Day, however, a ceremony of great historical and local significance was held there. A Covid-19 restricted gathering held a ceremony to commemorate the death and burial in 1920 of Irish Volunteer, patriot and Knocknagoshel native Captain James Hickey who was tortured and murdered by British forces in Tipperary Millitary Ba...

The GAA Museum remembers Bloody Sunday. Remember with us. Original Match Ticket In 1920, Tipperary and Dublin were two of the best teams in the country. The political situation at the time saw very few GAA championships completed. Tipperary had qualified for the 1920 Munster semi-final but the military refused to grant permission for the match to take place. Tipperary needed a challenge game and looked to Dublin, a team that had already qualified for the All-Ireland final. On 1st November, a le...

); Id never felt emotion like it. I was just so happy, my family were there and weve memories forever In the year of a pandemic, what’s it like to experience a county senior final win for the first time? By Fintan OToole Thursday 31 Dec 2020, 8:30 AM Dec 31st 2020, 8:30 AM 16,648 Views 2 Comments Kiladangan and Courcey Rovers celebrated glor...

“For plugging the holes in history the pamphlet is the ideal form.” — George Orwell, ‘Pamphlet Literature’, January 9, 1943. New Statesman and Nation George Orwell regretted the surprising “badness of contemporary pamphlets”. From a survey of his own library he identified nine main trends, ranging from “anti-Left and crypto-Fascist” to “lunatic”, and described them as “practically all trash, interesting only to bibliographies”. This was surprising as “the pamphlet o...