Nick Maxwell Irish Guild of Embroiderers Irish Patchwork Society Irish Countrywomen’s Association, Blanchardstown Finglas Arts Squad Divas Girls’ Group, Finglas Arts Centre RADE (Rehabilitation through Art, Drama and Education) Rowlagh Women’s Arts Group Cherry Orchard Art Group Gala Group, Ringsend Mater Dei Primary School, Basin Lane Larkin Community College St Louis High School, Rathmines Central Remedial Clinic … Read more
2013 is the centenary of the 1913 Lockout (as should be obvious from our special issue!), but what many will consider to be the big one is on the horizon already. Every day at 2.30pm, between now and mid-September, Glasnevin Cemetery is hosting a re-enactment of Patrick Pearse’s famous (or infamous) oration at the grave … Read more
Sat 11am Chester Beatty Library atrium, Dublin Castle. Intercultural tour with community ambassador: Irish language tour, Jack FitzGerald.
July 8 1920 James Joyce arrived in Paris, planning to stay for only a few months; finding the intellectual environment conducive to his intellect, he remained for almost the rest of his life. 9 1995 The Clare hurling team under Ger Loughnane won the Munster hurling championship for the first time since 1932. They went … Read more
The Gathering, Fáilte Ireland’s attempt to lure the overseas Irish back to the oul’ sod, is well under way and a great success by all accounts. Surely the most imaginative event of the campaign is the global donkey gathering in Omeath, Co. Louth. In the late nineteenth century, Francie and Katie Murphy of that parish … Read more