By Fiona Brennan Micheál Mac Liammóir, the co-founder of the Gate Theatre, was a steadfast advocate of the Irish amateur dramatic movement. Writing in Theatre of Ireland in 1950, he […]
Read More →Museum of Literature Ireland, www.moli.ie By Donal Fallon This year marks the centenary of the birth not only of Brendan Behan but also of his contemporary and friend Anthony Cronin. […]
Read More →RTÉ1, 9 and 16 February 2023 By Sylvie Kleinman This deliberately unpretentious, occasionally rollicking yet robust and informative two-part documentary looks at the career and character of Lady Augusta Gregory […]
Read More →By Patricia Fallon ‘All to one side like Moynalty’ is a well-known phrase in Meath, referring to the village of Moynalty, redeveloped in the early nineteenth century, under the ownership […]
Read More →By Fiona Fitzsimons Between the 1860s and the 1930s, over 100,000 child and juvenile emigrants were sent from the UK to Canada, Australia and New Zealand as part of the […]
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