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The 'Wild World' of the painter Rockwell Kent
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
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Congo UN Mission Saw The First Deaths Of Irish Peacekeepers
... 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
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Breage - Eglosvreg
... of Saint Brigid of Kildare. She travelled from her native Ireland to Cornwall in about 460 AD. We walked in the grounds and touched the ... visible. Within the church is also the old Roman marker stone bearing the name of Marcus Cassianius. This church is really worth ...
Anonymous (not verified) - May 11 2013 - 5:39pm
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The unique and haunting granite giants of La Vallee des Saints in Brittany
... on the hillside, representing the monks who came over from Ireland, Wales or Cornwall to bring Christianity to Brittany. Each statue on ... St Gildas, St Brieuc and St Malo were the first of the stone Saints to illustrate the legendary history of Brittany and more of the ...
Dominique Corolleur - Aug 10 2018 - 1:02pm
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Plans to develop new state-of-the-art Scottish Crannog museum one step closer
... type of ancient loch-dwelling found throughout Scotland and Ireland. The earliest loch-dwelling in Scotland is some 5,000 years old but ... rock onto the loch bed to make an island on which to build a stone house. There are several hundred examples of this in Scotland, although ...
Douglas MacQueen - Jun 19 2020 - 12:36pm
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Its a hard living for fishermen without the under sea menace
... 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
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'In search of the beginnings of Manx Literature'
... 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
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Irish Government Aims To Make St Brigid's Day National Public Holiday from 2023
... 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
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Dr. Jenny Butler Narrates the Award Winning Film - Spiorad na Samhna (Spirit of Samhan)
... 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
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Statue of Irish writer and journalist Pádraic Ó Conaire unveiled in Galway
... Galway (Irish: An Fhaiche Mhór, Gaillimh) in the west of Ireland. Irish President Michael D Higgins performed the ceremony. The ... collection of short stories An Chéad Chloch (‘The First Stone’) in 1914 to great acclaim. In 1917 he completed Seacht mBua an ...
Eibhlin O'Neill - Nov 24 2017 - 9:52pm
