Revered as a saint in India, more effort has gone into honouring her memory than understanding her. By Malachi O’Doherty Margaret Noble, or Sister Nivedita, was a far more complex […]
Read More »RTÉ Radio 1, 5 November 2017 By John Gibney The three funerals that are the subject of this compelling instalment of RTÉ Radio 1’s Documentary On One series arose from […]
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Read More »The First World War correspondence of Michael Bourke, Garvey’s Lane, Limerick. By Tadhg Moloney During the First World War, letters allowed soldiers in training or at the front to keep […]
Read More »The prison medical service and the treatment of Thomas Ashe. By Ciara Breathnach On 7 September 1917, Gregory Ashe wrote the following letter to his son Thomas following his recent […]
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