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Tenders will issue later this year for the €24 million upgrade of Galway city’s Ceannt Station. A contractor is expected to be appointed in 2022, with construction expected to be completed by 2024.
Culloden Estate to host Holywood International Art and Sculpture Art Fair in June
April 24, 1916 The Easter Rising of 1916 began early in the morning of Monday, April 24 as close to 1,200 people – a combination of the Irish Volunteers and the Citizen Army – took over key points throughout Dublin, including the General Post Office (GPO), the headquarters of the uprising; the Four Courts, Dublin City Hall, St. Stephen’s Green and the Jacob’s Biscuit factory. Led by James Connolly, Padraig Pearse, Sean Mac Dermott, Joseph Plunkett and Eamonn Ceannt, the rising took the Dublin police and military forces mostly by surprise. The most notable encounter of the first day to...
Save Dublin’s Moore Street – Last Battlefield of 1916 Rising Shane Cullen's memorial to The O'Rahilly, containing the words of his last letter to his wife. By Robin Mary Heaney, Guest Blogger February 13, 2012 The last battlefield of the 1916 Rising’s heroes must be preserved. Moore Street, Dublin – for years the bustling site of flower markets and fruit sellers, but today the object of a fight to preserve Ireland’s heritage and the genesis of its nationhood. Sometimes called the “Alamo of Ireland,” the laneways and streets surrounding Moore Street are...
The death and life of Pat Tierney, the Bard of Ballymun Twenty-five years ago, poet and activist Pat Tierney died on his 39th birthday. Fionnuala McCarthy remembers a life story overshadowed by a controversy in death. By Fionnuala McCarthy Sunday 3 Jan 2021, 8:00 PM Jan 3rd 2021, 8:00 PM 68,793 Views 33 Comments Fionnuala McCarthy THE PHONE CALL came to the Sunday T...