... Cheltenham had been tapping telecommunications cables from Ireland for many years. The British spooks were ‘hoovering up’ not just ... but all private and commercial communications between Ireland and the world. Snowdens revelations established without doubt that ...
Myghal Map Serpren - Mar 23 2015 - 12:51pm - 0 comments
... in the Isle of Man in 444 AD while returning from England to Ireland. He is then said to have appointed the Celtic missionary St German who ... remains stands the Irish style round tower; early medieval stone towers of a type found mainly in Ireland, but there are two in Scotland ...
Alastair Kneale - Sep 17 2016 - 8:50pm - 0 comments
... is the best surviving example of an Archbishop’s Palace in Ireland. The curtain walls enclose over an acre of land that slopes down to the ... Castle Image: Swords Castle, 1792. Antiquities of Ireland by Francis Grose (1731 – 1791) Celtic nation: ...
Anonymous (not verified) - May 11 2021 - 1:05pm
... and about two miles north of Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland (Irish: Dún Dealgan, Contae Lú, Éire). It is by the R173 in the ... Newenham, Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of Ireland, 1830. Celtic nation: Ireland Itinerary: ...
Anonymous (not verified) - Apr 25 2021 - 12:12pm
... won the election outright, Fine Gael, the senior partner in Ireland’s present coalition government have most certainly lost it. The ... crisis on those least able to bear it. The people of Ireland have been forced to pay through the nose for many years following ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Feb 29 2016 - 6:05pm - 0 comments
... blog Commemorations were held today in both Ireland and Wales to mark the centenary of the sinking of the City of Dublin ... just set sail on 10th October 2018 from Dún Laoghaire in Ireland and was bound for Holyhead (Caergybi) in Wales, when it was sunk by a ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Oct 10 2018 - 8:50pm
... of Justice over the torture of internees in the north of Ireland in the early 1970s (see below). The League are supporting calls ... TD Iveagh House 80 Stephen’s Green Dublin 2 Ireland 29/11/14 Dear Minister, I am writing on behalf of the ...
Myghal Map Serpren - Nov 30 2014 - 7:52pm - 0 comments
... a giant ‘NO’ sign by campaigners opposed to abortion in Ireland on the side of Ben Bulben mountain has prompted protest from the Ireland's National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS). The sign is 100 foot ...
Alastair Kneale - May 18 2018 - 12:51pm
Bernard Moffatt's blog BBC Northern Ireland has an interesting piece here on the American artist Rockwell Kent and the time he spent in Ireland (Donegal) in the mid 1920s https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-44534911 Kent was one of a group of socialists and intellectuals ...
Bernard Moffatt - Jun 23 2018 - 2:22pm
... of what was to be over fifty years of peace-keeping in which Ireland’s Defence Forces have gained a reputation for professionalism and ... we drew heavily on Katsumi Ishizuka’s detailed study “Ireland and International Peacekeeping Operations 1960-2000” sub-heading “A ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Jan 30 2016 - 9:41pm - 0 comments