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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 Ukrainian tunes to benefit his future school. Here, the avowed big-city person, saying, “I don’t l...

Dysart Cemetery on the Castleisland to Farranfore Road doesn't get a lot of attention these days in terms of funerals or ceremonies of any kind. On the most recent St. Stephen's 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 Barracks on the Sunday of St. Stephen's Day 1920. The Kerryman of January 8-1921 carried the followi...

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 letter from the Tipperary team appeared in the Freemans Journal newspaper: "We understand that Tippera...

'); 'I'd never felt emotion like it. I was just so happy, my family were there and we've 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 O'Toole Thursday 31 Dec 2020, 8:30 AM Dec 31st 2020, 8:30 AM 16,648 Views 2 Comments Kiladangan and Courcey Rovers celebrated glory in 2020. Kiladangan and Courcey Rovers celebrated glory in 2020. JANUARY SAW THE start of th...

“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 ought to be the literary form of an age like our own”, Orwell argued. A time “when political pass...