Nazi sa Gaeltacht

TG4, 22 June 2022 First broadcast by BBC Northern Ireland, 26 July 2020 Made for BBC Gaeilge by Macha Media By Sylvie Kleinman In August 1937, Dr Ludwig Mühlhausen, professor of Celtic studies at Berlin University, arrived in Teileann, a remote Gaeltacht village on the Donegal coast. For six weeks, he improved his Irish, interacted … Read more

The Devil from over the Sea: Remembering and Forgetting Oliver Cromwell in Ireland

SARAH COVINGTON Oxford University Press £25 ISBN 9780198848318 Reviewed by Guy Beiner Guy Beiner is the Sullivan Chair of Irish Studies at Boston College. In the Irish countryside, a hex of ‘scrios Cromaill ort’ (typically cast by an elderly woman or a widow) was dreaded. The ‘Curse of Cromwell’ conjured up deep-rooted and traumatic historical … Read more