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50 years on – The Story of Trócaire

Date: Mar 21, 23
Established in 1973 by the Catholic Church, the charity organisation, through the support of the ...

Just A Memory – Evening Study

Date: Mar 21, 23
By Anne Rhodes It was the late 1970s, a damp summer was fading fast. It had been Spring when, fe...

Cork Harbour Tragedy 1942

Date: Mar 21, 23
Just over 80 years ago, on an incredibly stormy evening in December, 1942, a terrible tragedy bef...

Pugin’s Irish Landmarks

Date: Mar 21, 23
Augustus Welby Pugin Though best remembered now as one of the designers of the Palace of Westmin...

The Ha’penny Bridge

Date: Mar 21, 23
Dublin’s Ha’penny Bridge is one of the symbols of the city. When opened on 19 May, 1816, it was t...

The Man With the Golden Trumpet

Date: Mar 14, 23
Trumpet-player and entertainer extraordinaire Johnny Carroll recently celebrated sixty-five years...

70 years of Waiting for Godot

Date: Mar 14, 23
During the premiere of Waiting for Godot at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris on 5 January 1953, h...

Just A Memory – The Pipe Bands

Date: Mar 13, 23
By Mike Hackett Today we go in musical mode to celebrate and encourage the wonderful pipe bands ...

They Declared for Ireland

Date: Mar 13, 23
By Seán Creedon Due to our high emigration down through the centuries, it’s no surprise that so ...

The Cliffs of Moher – a Tragic Beauty?

Date: Mar 13, 23
A series on Great Irish Landmarks by Hannah Huxley For the March instalment of this landmark ser...