News

New Series – The Circus: How it All Began

Date: Jun 15, 21
The modern circus, as an integrated entertainment experience that includes music, domesticated an...

The Ballad Sheet – Take Me Up to Monto

Date: Jun 15, 21
In part twelve of this series, Eugene Dunphy unravels the story behind a bawdy Dublin ballad &nb...

Forever Benjy – a Tribute to Tom Hickey

Date: Jun 8, 21
Brian McCabe pays tribute to the late actor Tom Hickey who shone on stage and screen down the yea...

The Michael Lyster Column – A Glimpse into the Nazi Past

Date: Jun 8, 21
Read Michael Lyster every month in Ireland's Own I was searching through a bookshelf at home the...

The story behind ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’

Date: Jun 8, 21
Liam Nolan takes a look back on the life and career of Irish-American Ed Sullivan who became the ...

Toys of Our Youth

Date: Jun 8, 21
Nicky Rossiter shares special memories of the toys that occupied us during our childhood days Wi...

Loch Ness: Myth or Monster?

Date: Jun 8, 21
There are a great many theories as to whether or not a large unidentified creature inhabits the d...

When Princess Grace Came to Ireland

Date: Jun 1, 21
She was the beautiful actress who became a fairytale princess, but Grace Kelly was proud of her I...

Islands of Ireland Series – Tory Island

Date: Jun 1, 21
A series with David Mullen For Ireland’s most distant inhabited offshore island (some nine miles...

The Ballad Sheet – The Galway Races

Date: Jun 1, 21
By Eugene Dunphy It seems a shame to have to bracket the title of a great song with ‘anon’, but ...