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For many, the biggest surprise about the blowing up of Nelson’s Pillar in Dublin on March 8, 1966, is why it took 157 years. The resentment had run deep. Almost fifty years after the 1916 Rising an Englishman still towered over every other notable in the city, many groused.
Brendan Behan was arguably one of the last writers to emerge from the Irish literary revival movement. This originated in the 1880s, initiated within the Protestant Ascendency class, by Douglas Hyde, W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory, and J.M.
The 1641 Depositions Project provides a unique window into everyday life in 17th-century Ireland. Housed in Trinity College Dublin, the online resource from the 1641 Rebellion provides an extraordinary insight into life across the 32 counties of Ireland.
Looking across to the east side of Fitzwilliam Street Lower as it recedes from the corner of Merrion Square, its brownish-pink brick façade, punctuated by
Love and Death Among the Irish Travellers More than a century ago, Nashville was chosen as a sacred place for a resilient group of nomads â and so it remains Tweet Share In vacant lots and campgrounds along Murfreesboro Road, the green tents would appear, suddenly but predictably, the first weekend of May every year for decades. The road would swarm with hundreds of people greeting one another, hugging like family, dancing and playing the old music. Their faces told a story of life on the road. Their hands told a story of hard work. There was a familiarity...