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It was dubbed D-Day, the day Ireland woke up to a new currency and abandoned £.s.d., a monetary system that had “debauched generations of school children”, according to Labour’s Justin Keating. Fifty years ago, a cold and wet Monday, February 15, 1971, “the new money”, as decimal currency was known, came into circulation, with 100p to the pound, instead of 240d or 20 shillings. The date was picked so that Ireland could make this leap in tandem with our British neighbours. The transition from old to new had been championed by Minister for Finance Charlie Haughey, while two of its mo...

Fabulous February begins at the Dunamaise Arts Centre in Portlaoise Reporter: news@leinsterexpress.ie Dunamaise Arts Centre is closed but the team is bringing you plenty of virtual creativity for lockdown ');  '); The Dunamaise Arts creative team os looking forward to "Fabulous February" with the launch of the 'Dunamaise on Air! The team has compiled a brand new series of podcasts called 'A Word in Your Ear' as well as new cultural films and a play by the award-winning theatre company Druid for you to stream. “We've been working really hard over the past months on finding ways of connect...

Over The Moon. We are really thrilled to be nominated with Bruno Coulais for Best original Score for an animated feature for #Wolfwalkers at the @HMMAwards-if you've yet to watch @CartoonSaloon’s amazing film-It’s on @appletv!@Variety@RTE_Ents@JOEdotie@culture_ireland@IFTA@DonaldClarke63pic.twitter.com/36Gwhyk08e — Kíla (@KilaRecords) January 17, 2021 Speaking to RTÉ Entertainment, Noone said, "I'm a bit overwhelmed to be nominated next to some of my favourite artists in the song-writing category for the Hollywood Music in Media Awards and I’m proud to be a small part of Ireland’s...

A conservative revolution National sovereignty crystalised Gaelicism and late Victorian mores. Marc Mulholland argues, in his second article, that there was no transformation of popular consciousness If there was an Irish revolution, it probably began with the Irish Land League of 1879-81. This was founded by Michael Davitt, the one-armed son of farmers evicted during the famine (he had lost a limb working as a boy in an English factory), and presided over by Charles Stewart Parnell, a Protestant landlord. The league campaigned against ‘rackrents’ (anything above what tenant farmers thoug...

  For lovers of the stage, the sight has been dismal. The past year brought unprecedented hardship to the world of theatre as Covid-19 forced playhouses to close and cancel one production after another, with dire consequences for all involved. It’s no surprise, however, that theatremakers have bounced back with wonderful ingenuity, creating socially-distanced productions and livestreaming events, even as financial strictures only increased. The Dublin Theatre Festival, for example, went to great lengths to reinvent itself when the second wave of the pandemic hit and managed to salvage p...