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Renowned journalist Eamonn Mallie is back with another series of intriguing interviews in Face to Face. He talks to Claire O’Boyle For years he was on the frontline of the hardest-hitting sort of journalism. Grilling politicians and public figures through the course of the Troubles, broadcaster Eamonn Mallie — like the very best of his peers — could nail the lines he needed in a matter seconds. Now aged 70 the legendary reporter, whose latest series of Eamonn Mallie: Face to Face hits our screens tomorrow night, is working at a different pace than he used to. “It’s another world re...

Professor Paul Salveson is a historian and writer and lives in Bolton. He is visiting professor in Worktown Studies at the University of Bolton and author of several books on Lancashire history Bolton is a multi-cultural town and has been for centuries, going back to the Flemish weavers who arrived in the 1300s. By far the largest wave of immigration in the 19th century came from Ireland and this was explored in a previous Looking Back feature. Those first Irish immigrants were fleeing dire poverty and starvation. They settled in Bolton and created their own institutions – cultural, r...

Film Maker Bob Quinn & the 'Atlantean' Docu, Part of Galway Film Fleadh’s Solstice Festival 24th December 2020 Filmmaker and Aosdána member Bob Quinn Credit: Kieran Slyne Atlantean conjures up images of sea serpents, mythical peoples living under the sea and it is also the title of a fascinating project which Aosdána member and filmmaker Bob Quinn embarked on in the early 1980s. The outcome was three documentaries, entitled Atlantean, which are now being screened as part of Galway Film Fleadh’s Solstice festival until January 21st. Quinn also wrote a book entitled The Atlantean Irish...