The peacemaking legacy of Daniel Berrigan, S.J
Ireland is out of Eurovision. So what went wrong?
A small number of citizens of Irish extraction decided that it was better to fight for Ireland than for the Empire
Yes – 1916 was the great break with the past!
Dublin was one big fete.
It is important that in remembering and commemorating what happened that we don’t glorify or justify it.
Diane Fahey’s poems about her dying mother are eloquent with understated grief…
A Book Review by Renée Huish Meda Ryan: 16 Lives: Thomas Kent, O’Brien Press, Dublin, 2016. ISBN: 9781847172655 RRP: €14.99 paperback; €10.99 ePub. In the wake of The Easter Rising in Ireland in April 1916 fourteen men were executed by firing squad at Kilmainham gaol in Dublin. Thomas Kent was executed in Cork. All the firing squad executions …
Many of the participating poets had been enthusiastic supporters of the Gaelic League – Irish language advocates, poets, playwrights, newspaper writers on cultural and socialist matters. Their loss must have been a severe one to the emergent Free State.
For I wish you more than I
Ever knew of glorious deed