Shea Tomkins

Songs Our Folks Were Listening to in 1926

Date: Mar 24, 26
An extract from the latest in our Birth of a Nation Series - The Story of 1926   By Eugene...

Dermot Hegarty – The Man Who Gave Us ’21 Years’

Date: Mar 24, 26
At 85, he’s still singing and touring – despite surviving a near-fatal car crash and a life-threa...

Classic Film – Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Date: Mar 24, 26
By Arthur Flynn When audiences saw Steven Spielberg’s name about a film they are assured of ente...

The Rock of Dunamase – Echoes of Kings and Conquest

Date: Mar 24, 26
Spectacular views of the surrounding countryside make the towering Rock of Dunamase a place of st...

The Origins of April Fools Day

Date: Mar 24, 26
By Nicky Rossiter We’re well used to people playing pranks on April 1st, but where did this rath...

Parnell – The Uncrowned King of Ireland

Date: Mar 18, 26
Charles Stewart Parnell transformed from an Anglo-Irish squire into the leader of the Home Rule m...

Classic Film – Ryan’s Daughter

Date: Mar 18, 26
By Arthur Flynn One of the biggest films to be shot in Ireland, on a par with John Ford’s The Qu...

Remembering John B.

Date: Mar 18, 26
The playwright’s attachment to his native town and county is highly significant. In verse and son...

Sergeant Stubby – the dog who became a war hero

Date: Mar 18, 26
By Pauline Murphy At the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington DC you wi...

100 years of International Football

Date: Mar 18, 26
By Seán Creedon Back in November Troy Parrott gave the nation a major boost when he scored two g...