Stone Roses legend Mani: On receiving Athy's highest honour
Mani is among those who’ve been honoured with a Made of Athy plaque. In an exclusive interview, the Stone Roses legend talks to Stuart Clark about the impo...
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Mani is among those who’ve been honoured with a Made of Athy plaque. In an exclusive interview, the Stone Roses legend talks to Stuart Clark about the impo...
THE official launch of the re-enactment group, the Cork Brigade Flying Colum, will take place in Kilmurry Independence Museum on Sunday January 12th.And the group is also looking for new recruits to swell its numbers in time for upcoming commemorations.The group had their first o
It is to be welcomed, that, during the period of our Machnamh 100 seminars, so much new work has been published on the period of the War of Independence, the…
The Crossbarry ambush restored IRA morale in March 1921, but could so easily have been a disaster. The Parish of Clogagh had never seen a funeral like it. No parish in Ireland would ever see its like again. In the pre-dawn darkness, down the rain-slicked road from the church to the cemetery, the cortege came. The coffin was borne by six men, and behind the coffin, six mourners walked. Six mourners. At an Irish country funeral. It was as many as they dared bring. Carried on the wind: the creak of leather, the soft shiiing-shiiing of metal upon metal, the murmur of boots on damp, hard-...