Irish Lit: Listening to Claire Keegan
The next time I am in Dublin, I will go to Glasnevin Cemetery, to the Jesuit plot, and leave a small oval-shaped blue-hued stone at the foot of the cross where Gerard Manley Hopkins’ name is engraved. The great nineteenth-century poet is
Irish Lit: Write By the Sea
The next time I am in Dublin, I will go to Glasnevin Cemetery, to the Jesuit plot, and leave a small oval-shaped blue-hued stone at the foot of the cross where Gerard Manley Hopkins’ name is engraved. The great nineteenth-century poet is
Cleveland Comhra: The Dearg Due
Celtic Vampire Folklore: The Tale of Mairenn
Vampire stories are abundant in Celtic folklore, and Ireland has its share of them. These tales have existed...
Eveleen Nicholls: A Gaelic League Activist’s Tragic End on the Blasket Islands
Dark Day on the Blaskets: The Death of Eveleen Nicholls
Eveleen Constance Nicholls, Gaelic League activist, was born October 22, 1884, in Dublin, the second...
Kids craic: who’s your daddy (part 3)
When I started writing about the Founding Fathers, I never thought it was going to take three parts! I do not know why I...