By Evan Comerford ‘The present famine, as all other famines in Ireland, has been the direct result of the system of land tenure which is maintained there’ (Charles Stewart Parnell, […]

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By Fiona Fitzsimons Early in the morning of 14 January 1843, the island residents of Lough Ree returned home from the wake of their neighbour Betty Martin. Thady Shea, his […]

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By Andreas Boldt Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), the German composer and pianist, is one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music. In his 30s Beethoven started […]

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By Teddy Fennelly The story of Col. Ned Despard, the Irishman who was hanged for treason in London in 1803, has been well documented but largely forgotten until it was […]

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By Melissa Sheils ‘Although he is savage in his hair, … [Shane] does not seem to me that he is savage in his brain.’ These words, written by Álvaro de […]

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