The curious case of Richard Burke, executed for murder, and the unsolved mystery of the great fire at Queen’s College, Cork, in 1862. By Pat Poland The fire at Queen’s […]
Read More →By Fiona Fitzsimons Irish traditional music is both an oral tradition and an art form. It often, though not always, has no set composer and is rooted in a community […]
Read More →By Bronagh Ann McShane ‘When Cromwell left [Ireland] … he put Ireton in charge of his soldiers. Ireton came to Galway in 1652 and demanded “surrender”. Galway yielded after many […]
Read More →By Dermot McGuinne When Queen Elizabeth II used five simple words in Irish, ‘A Uachtaráin agus a chairde’, in beginning her address at the banquet held in her honour at […]
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