... 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
... from the Celtic League: We have had initial reply from Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs to say they are looking at our ... IMO action over the regulation of submarine activity. Ireland sponsored the initial resolution in 1987 after a series of Irish Sea ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Oct 20 2016 - 1:52pm - 0 comments
... O Muircheartaigh who is a native of Mayo in the west of Ireland. He is a graduate of the National University of Ireland, Galway, where he studied Old, Middle and Modern Irish, writing an ...
Alastair Kneale - Jan 19 2016 - 2:23pm - 0 comments
... effect in 2023. Saint Brigid (Irish: Naomh Bríd) is one of Ireland's patron saints, along with St Patrick and St Colmcille and is the only ... Equinox and has been celebrated by the Irish long before Ireland was a Christian country. It is believed to have celebrated the pagan ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Jan 16 2022 - 8:28pm
... Documentary Award at the Underground Film Festival in Cork, Ireland. ... and customs today". The film traces origins of Ireland's biggest Halloween Carnival in Derry back to troubled years of 1980s. ...
Emmett McIntyre - Oct 16 2015 - 3:20pm - 0 comments
... two large focal monuments on Cairnbane West outside Kells in Ireland’s County Meath. The carving of concentric circles and lines is at the ... Irish archaeoastronomer Paul Griffin. Experts at Astronomy Ireland have suggested that Neolithic astronomer priests made the carvings on ...
Alastair Kneale - Apr 3 2021 - 2:01pm - 0 comments
... says in his most recent report that the Northern Ireland Office and its Secretary, Theresa Villiers, take ‘great care when ... he said: "The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland shows a keen interest in the case for necessity and proportionality. ... her period in ‘the twilight zone’ i.e. the ‘Northern Ireland Office’ until (if she keeps the natives quiet) a better and more ...
Myghal Map Serpren - Jul 29 2015 - 9:41am - 0 comments
... stick with a silver collar and tip has been sold in Belfast, Ireland (Irish: Béal Feirste, Éire) for £52,000. The reason that the stick ... sold along with a letter of provenance. An institution in Ireland is understood to have bought the stick and it is likely to form part of ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Sep 30 2021 - 4:22pm