Newstalk, 3 & 9 October, 28 December 2021 By Fionnuala Walsh In October 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, word trickled out that the historian Margaret MacCurtain had passed […]
Read More →By Martin Morris Have you ever wondered what it cost to buy chocolate or sugar 300 years ago? Or the cost of dinner, or a servant’s wages? You will find […]
Read More →By Stephen Kelly Ownership of the Falkland Islands, an archipelago of an estimated 200 islands scattered in the South Atlantic, 300 miles off the coast of Argentina and approximately 8,000 […]
Read More →By Jack Hepworth In April 1972 it was estimated that there were some 32,000 living veterans of the ‘Old IRA’, Cumann na mBan and Na Fianna Éireann. Through the 1970s […]
Read More →By Conor English Distilling has been an important part of Cork’s economy since the late eighteenth century. Four of the largest distilleries amalgamated in 1867 to form the Cork Distilleries […]
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