Fascinating New Study on Famine Effect on Irish Height in LiveIreland.ie Today.
Areas hardest hit by the Great Irish Famine did not experience an expected stunting in height of the population, new academic research has found.
The research from Queen’s Business School in Belfast and Edinburgh Business School has examined the impact of one of the defining events in Irish history.
Gerry Adams and Séanna Walsh – 2005 – Towards a New Ireland (and the End of the IRA’s Armed Struggle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PTX64l1W9g
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2005 was a momentous year in the Irish peace process when Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams called on the IRA leadership to end its...
The Power of Culture
A Letter from Ireland
a Chara,
This week's letter will be mostly, sort of, politics free as most of the political institutions are in recess.
At the...
Irish Lit: Drumming Days and a Belfast Poet
A less mythic and therefore more intimate depiction of how the immediacy of the Conflict forced parents to explain needless violence to their children is offered in Longley’s, “The Ice Cream Man”:
Gerry Adams – A Ballymurphy Man Trailer Released
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75GKGZ53twg