BBC1, 9 May 2022; RTÉ1, 16 May 2022 Alleycats TV By Sylvie Kleinman What does it mean to be Irish, and what truth lies beneath our comforting origin tales? Pensive […]
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Read More →By John Walsh In this centenary year of the foundation of the state, one topic that has received little attention is the Irish language. For instance, none of the 50 […]
Read More →By Lar Joye Seventy-seven years ago, on 6 and 9 August 1945, two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, killing over 200,000 people. An Irish doctor, […]
Read More →By John Gibney The ‘Republic of Biafra’ came into being in May 1967, when Nigeria’s eastern province seceded and declared itself independent. Nigeria itself had become independent in 1960; its […]
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