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Alfred Chester Beatty – Our Prince of Benefactors

Date: Aug 16, 22
Sir Alfred Chester Beatty was a very generous man on every level who in his will bequeathed his l...

The Civil War – fighting intensifies around the country

Date: Aug 16, 22
The month of August was to be particularly tragic because of the sudden death of Arthur Griffith ...

Cheers – where everybody knows your name

Date: Aug 16, 22
40 years after it first aired on NBC, Nolene McLoughlin remembers the long-running hit comedy ‘Ch...

“Burning of the Cittie of Corke in 1622”

Date: Aug 16, 22
400 years ago a catastrophe struck the city of Cork which, in terms of fatalities, put the Great ...

Peter O’Toole – “as Irish as the Rock of Cashel”

Date: Aug 9, 22
Thomas Myler looks back on the life and career of the legendary actor, who, although born in Engl...

The Last Woman to be Hanged in Ireland

Date: Aug 9, 22
Annie Walshe faced the executioner insisting she was innocent, but the jury had decided otherwise...

Why the Irish Censor Cut Casablanca

Date: Aug 9, 22
Irish audiences were denied the full, uncut version of Casablanca for about thirty years, writes ...

The Priesthunters of Wexford

Date: Aug 9, 22
Eugene Dunphy examines the impact of the Penal Laws in one Irish county   The destruction ...

Remembering Con Houlihan

Date: Aug 2, 22
This month is the tenth anniversary of the death of that great Kerry-born wordsmith Con Houlihan....

Classic Film – To Sir, With Love

Date: Aug 2, 22
By Arthur Flynn   During the 1960s Sidney Poitier was one of the top American actors. His ...