Reviews

By Donal Fallon In November 2021, at the end of a second difficult year for heritage sites, Fáilte Ireland announced the awarding of funding to ten museums and cultural institutions in the capital. One of those recipients, the GAA Museum, has benefited enormously from this and earlier funding. Significantly altered since Tony Canavan’s visit four … Read more

BBC1, 9 May 2022; RTÉ1, 16 May 2022 Alleycats TV By Sylvie Kleinman What does it mean to be Irish, and what truth lies beneath our comforting origin tales? Pensive and awed, Ardal O’Hanlon opened this captivating documentary by pacing through a suitably misty Neolithic court tomb, an iconic example of ‘sacred sites’ connecting us … Read more