By Joe Curran Recent controversies about the costs of the new Children’s Hospital and the control of the National Maternity Hospital highlight the significance of healthcare funding and management. Debates […]
Read More →CARRICKMACROSS, CO. MONAGHAN By Damian Murphy Monalty House is set within a drumlin landscape two miles south of the market town of Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan. It is the second […]
Read More →By Anne Casey On 16 December 1848, fifteen-year-old Catherine McNeill from Roscommon was one of 234 girls to board the Digby, the fifth ship of the Earl Grey scheme […]
Read More →By Brian Hopkins and Peter McClintock Darver, Co. Louth, 22 December 1799: on this date and in that village Nicholas Joseph Callan was born into a prosperous farming family with […]
Read More →By Laura Fitzachary ‘It must, however, be remembered, when considering their good fortune, that in the day in which they lived beauty was all powerful’ —Francis Gerard, Some celebrated Irish […]
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