By Deborah White It was an anxious wait for Mr Duigenan, Keeper of Irish Antiquities at the National Museum of Ireland. After protracted negotiation the star artefact of his upcoming […]
Read More →Ballinakill, Co. Laois By Damian Murphy The origins of Heywood Gardens date back to the late eighteenth century when Michael Frederick Trench (1746–1836), having designed and built a neo-Classical villa […]
Read More →By Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh Over the past few months, the Irish minister for agriculture, Charlie McConalogue, has suggested on several occasions that Irish farmers could and should be growing more […]
Read More →By John Lonergan A soviet is an elected workers committee functioning as a political and military organisation. The Limerick Soviet was the first and only self-declared soviet in Ireland or […]
Read More →By Siobhán Doyle In 1914, a book entitled How to play Gaelic football was published and is widely regarded as the first illustrated coaching manual for Gaelic Games. Printed by Guy […]
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