A moment in modernism’s development in Ireland. By Brian Trench In April 1926 writers Liam O’Flaherty (front cover) and Francis MacManus debated the role of religion in Irish culture. O’Flaherty […]
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Read More →Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin By Muirne Lyons Rathfarnham Castle is a sixteenth-century semi-fortified house with an eighteenth-century Georgian interior. It was built in 1583 by Adam Loftus (c. 1533–1605), who came […]
Read More →RTÉ1, 10 June 2019 Directed by Maurice Sweeney By Brian Hanley Angst has been expressed by some commentators regarding the difficulties that the forthcoming centenary of the Irish Civil War […]
Read More →In this ‘decade of commemorations’, it is worth reflecting on Ireland’s long, contentious yet colourful history of commemorations and the role that flags and emblems have played throughout it. By […]
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