Mac Math News Today

There are risk with the use of AI in education, but it also has huge potential to improve teaching and learning

In recognition of the service of those who took part in the revolutionary period 1916-23, the Army Pensions Act (APA) 1923 was passed by the Free State Government to allow claims to be submitted for pensions and medals to those who applied.

The Claddagh Records founder is celebrated in a new book that comes with remastered versions of some of the label’s finest recordings

A new book, Real to Reel, details the fascinating life and musical connections of the founder of Claddagh records 

Stop the presses, everyone – I lead this week with news of the bodhrán. A few days back I received a text from the great Jimmy Keane that contained...

LAST WEEK, many mourners turned out in Salthill to bid farewell to Fedamore native, Christy Fitzgerald. In his 95th year, the Limerick man was the youngest of a...

A GOOD number of readers will be aware of the Willie Clancy Summer School that is held each July in Milltown Malbay in West Clare. For one week the town and sur...

The fourth annual Éigse Thomáis Uí Aodha festival takes place in West Clare this weekend. The Irish language festival is the only event of its kind in Clare and will run from Friday to Sunday in Miltown Malbay. Some of the highlights include a lecture on the placenames of Clare, a pop-up Gaeltacht, a visit […]

On Wednesday’s Morning Focus, Alan Morrissey was joined by Séamus Mac Mathúna and Dr Pádraig Ó Cearbhaill to discuss the upcoming fourth annual Irish-Language festival, Éigse Thomáis Uí Aodha. The festival will to be held this weekend by Oidhreacht an Chláir in Miltown Malbay. The festival is held in memory of Tomás Ó hAodha, a […]

Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann’s Mid-Atlantic Fleadh – the first since 2019 – took place in Parsippany, NJ last weekend and I’m happy to report it was...