Health, Beauty and Lifestyle with Denise McNamara It may improve the mood of the nation, but a heatwave, even a mini one that we are experiencing...
1921 Outdated laws Ireland obtained her workhouses from the famine. They were erected to ameliorate a condition of things brought about by an alien government –...
Lifestyle – Carrabane athlete Olive Loughnane represented Ireland at four Olympic Games and six consecutive World Championships. Olive, who holds the gold and the silver medal...
Lifestyle – The influence of Irish monks on early Christianity is renowned. But with the Reformation in the 1500s and later the Penal Laws, their monasteries...
Country Living with Francis Farragher Many years ago, lively but good-humoured debates, used to swirl around our kitchen table, and especially so if the thresher man...
1921 Emigration rising The emigration statistics just published show that during 1920 emigrants from Ireland numbered 15,585, compared with 2,975 in 1918 – in other words,...
Baboró Children’s Arts Festival, which marks its 25th anniversary this year, changed the face of arts in Ireland by putting young people front and centre. “Until...
Bernie Dignam’s grandfather fought in World War I and was one of the unfortunate soldiers who saw action in Gallipoli, a horrific experience which damaged him...
