... 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
... 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
... 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
... 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
... 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
... 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
... 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
... community organisation that promotes the Irish language in Ireland and abroad. The League’s primary objective is the reinstatement of the Irish language as the common tongue of Ireland. Since its founding in 1893, members have been actively promoting ...
Emmett McIntyre - Mar 29 2020 - 8:25pm