... 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 tallest mural in Ireland, about 41 metres (135ft) in height, has been painted on the side of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Dundalk, Ireland (Irish: Dún Dealgan, Éire). It depicts the Celtic warrior god Lú. ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Sep 27 2021 - 4:33pm
... 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
Eibhlin O'Neill's blog Ireland is well known for its prehistoric manmade megalithic sites used as ... to the 1,600 or so megaliths thought to be remaining in Ireland. These include Cairns which have been and are used for a broad variety ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - May 21 2021 - 5:02pm
... prevaricate over climate change our neighbor to the West Ireland is taking action that will see peat harvesting by industrial means ... I did (hiking on several occasions) through the Midlands of Ireland will know it comparatively undeveloped and my ‘rural rides’ ...
Bernard Moffatt - Oct 24 2018 - 5:42pm
... for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has made it clear that Ireland is committed to recognising a Palestinian state as part of a peace ... been killed by Israeli forces during clashes in the region. Ireland is also committed to increasing funding to the United Nations Relief ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Sep 25 2018 - 9:22pm
... saw a large group of ‘people’ all dancing around in a circle in one of the many local ‘faery forts’ (faery circles). She ... from a combination of ridicule, growing up in Catholic Ireland and the fact that one was to be careful when speaking about ‘the ...
Emmett McIntyre - Apr 23 2017 - 11:26pm - 0 comments
... wisdom has it that Sir Walter Raleigh introduced the crop to Ireland about 1585. As a staple diet for the native population, it proved to be ... on whether people lived in coastal or inland parts of Ireland. Historical records point out that Irish people didn’t eat ...
Emmett McIntyre - May 17 2020 - 4:09pm
... This news published by the Celtic League: IRELAND: DOD APPEAR TO CONDONE ABUSE OF UNDER AGE RECRUITMENT BY UK MILITARY ... has had a response from the Department of Defence (DoD) (Ireland) to a query we raised about the potential recruitment of under eighteen ...
Myghal Map Serpren - Apr 30 2015 - 2:49pm - 0 comments