... in the superb and immensely readable "The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849", by Cecil Woodham-Smith. The first paragraph sets the tone: At the beginning of 1845, the state of Ireland was as it had been for nearly seven hundred years, a source of grave ...
Emmett McIntyre - Oct 21 2017 - 8:33pm
... from the town of Downpatrick, County Down, in the north of Ireland (Irish: Dún Pádraig, Contae an Dúin, Tuaisceart Éireann). It is on ... Although it is not possible to enter the building, a cross section of the castle can be seen, as the south corner of the castle has ...
Anonymous (not verified) - May 20 2021 - 1:06am
... monuments and was according to tradition, the seat of the High Kings of Ireland. There has been an ongoing campaign to save the prehistoric site from ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Jun 7 2017 - 12:02pm
... O'Neill's blog The construction of a 40 metre high wind turbine has been halted near a Neolithic cairn in Co Down (Irish: Contae an Dúin) in the northeast of Ireland. The development has been paused for 28 days due to fears that the ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Oct 24 2017 - 2:51pm
... of the Celtic League has written to the new United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, expressing his ... would like to make a formal complaint to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on behalf of the Celtic League - an NGO with ...
Myghal Map Serpren - Sep 25 2014 - 10:30pm - 0 comments
... October) " 'Paupers' funerals' in Wales reach five-year high" . The news item went on to report that the number of public health ...
Mair Williams - Oct 24 2018 - 12:46am
... launch of her party's election campaign for the Northern Ireland Assembly election she said she would not be supporting the introduction of an Irish Language Act. No surprise there as hostility to Ireland’s indigenous ethnicity including the Gaelic language is deeply ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Feb 6 2017 - 9:05pm - 0 comments
... the park immortalises the priests and monks from Cornwall, Ireland, Wales and Scotland who left their mark on the region 1,500 years ago, ... Celtic Nations. Weighing 5 tons and standing 3.5m (11ft) high this beautiful statue was created by sculptors David Paton and Stephane ...
Kernow Matters to Us - May 2 2018 - 6:16pm
... light also has a Chinese theme with displays of a 16-metre high porcelain elephant tower and a 30-metre long Chinese dragon. Chinese ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Nov 4 2017 - 4:16pm
... Irish speaking community. Attracting people from all over Ireland, the “Lá Mór na Gaeilge” (A Great Day Of Irish) was seen as both ... speakers. The campaign will now be taken to Belfast, Ireland’s second city. The BBC are reporting that a demonstration organised ...
Emmett McIntyre - Feb 22 2014 - 2:44pm - 0 comments