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“Ireland 1922,” published by the Royal Irish Academy, is comprised of 50 essays from 50 contributors, who each focus on an aspect of an extraordina...

‘Time heals all wounds, I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it’s never gone’… Rose Kennedy

CHARLESTOWN – Irish writer Robert Lynd once said, “In order to see birds, it is necessary to become part of the silence.” Of course it also helps to have a

The influence of the executed Irish socialist leader is clear in the Shaw and O’Casey plays

Unthinkable: Do you need to crush others with your intellect or is sowing doubt victory enough?

The 105th anniversary of the execution of Roger Casement was marked in London in early August, when Francie Molloy, MP for Mid Ulster, addressed a commemoration outside Pentonville Prison in Isling...

On Ignorance, the Weather Station Finds the Music to Match Her Expansive Poetry Ignorance, Tamara Lindeman finds herself outside a club and looking to the blue: "I watched some bird fly up and land on the rooftop / Then up again into the sky / In and out of sight / Flying down again to land on the pavement." Theres beauty and possibility in that nervous zig-zag, so cellular and plain and awake. Theres an ache, too, in seeing it lift just out of reach: "You know it just kills me when I see some...