Editorial

MARCH 01 Wed 6.30pm People’s College, Teachers’ Club, 36 Parnell Sq. W. New borders in Ireland and Europe 1918–1923, William Mulligan. Adm. €5. 01 Wed 8pm Old Athlone Society, www.athlonehistory.ie. Irish as a vernacular language in Athlone and its hinterland, 1600–c. 1970, Aengus Finnegan. 01 Wed 8pm Rathmichael Historical Society, Rathmichael NS, Shankill, Co. Dublin. … Read more

Notwithstanding the fact that Mayo hasn’t won a Connacht senior hurling title since 1909, Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s colourful phrase, that ‘senior hurling has gone global’, is an apt one in the post-Brexit/Trump world. (For an imprecise translation, perplexed non-Irish readers might substitute the word ‘hardball’.) This, of course, carries with it the implication that Ireland … Read more