Our established impressions of early Celtic Ireland have come down to us through the great Irish myths and sagas, yet how ... offerings in lakes and rivers. New material is examined on Ireland's contact with the Roman world and the final chapter reviews whether La ...
Anonymous (not verified) - Apr 28 2013 - 7:30pm
... on the work in developing the Irish Langauge in Northern Ireland." The article continued: "Committee Members, and indeed each of the ... on the necessity for an Irish Language Act (by the Northern Ireland Assembly) which was promised in the (2006) Saint Andrews Agreement." ...
Emmett McIntyre - Jun 17 2013 - 7:58pm - 0 comments
Eibhlin O'Neill's blog The President of Ireland Michael D Higgins (Irish: Mícheál D. Ó hUiginn) is about to conclude ... in Edinburgh. The Scottish First Minister said that Ireland was an important friend to Scotland and she looked forward to ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Jun 30 2016 - 11:32am - 0 comments
... The Easter Rising of 1916 is being commemorated around Ireland today including a military ceremony in O'Connell Street in Dublin. The ... was mounted by Irish republicans to end British rule in Ireland. It was one of the defining moments of the long struggle for Irish ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Apr 1 2018 - 4:01pm
... Night' bonfires were lit at midnight across the north of Ireland as part of a loyalist tradition to mark the anniversary of Protestant ... others to engage in serious disorder. By 1am, the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) had received a total of 327 emergency ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Jul 12 2018 - 12:12pm
... of the famine. The British government's (who then ruled Ireland) response to this catastrophic period of Irish history continues to be ... was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland. Yet the export of food crops and livestock from Ireland continued over ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - May 11 2018 - 8:10pm
... will be an indicator to people on ‘the Island of Ireland’ to create a framework for reform there. He was speaking ahead of the ... if referendum is successful the legislation being mooted for Ireland falls short of that existing elsewhere albeit it would remove the need ...
Bernard Moffatt - May 23 2018 - 2:47pm
... Irish Parliament. The First Minister has said that she views Ireland as an important friend to Scotland and looked forward to strengthening ... the European Union). The close relationship between Ireland and Scotland has been highlighted on a previous visit to Scotland by ...
Douglas MacQueen - Oct 5 2017 - 3:06pm
... on a journey to Larne (Irish: Latharna) in the north-east of Ireland. An hour into the sailing across the North Channel (Irish and Scottish Gaelic: Sruth na Maoile), the strait between north-eastern Ireland and south-western Scotland and which connects the Irish Sea to the ...
Douglas MacQueen - Jan 31 2018 - 9:26pm
... and independence. It is celebrating its 40th anniversary and Ireland's President Michael D. Higgins has praised the work of the ... Jim Dennehy. At a time when there was desperate need in Ireland for the training of guide dogs for blind and vision impaired people ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Sep 19 2016 - 5:39pm - 0 comments