Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by listening to popular Irish songs from Thin Lizzy, The Dubliners and U2. Add these to your St. Patrick's Day song playlist.
Gavin is a typical boy’s name in Ireland and Scotland. It was brought to these countries by the Normans during their invasion in the Middle Ages, although it was not particularly popular until the 19th century. Today it is still one of Ireland’s most popular boys’ names, especially in ...
In 1958, Behan's play in the Irish language An Giall had its debut at Dublin's Damer Theatre. Later, The Hostage, Behan's English-language adaptation of An Giall, met with great success internationally. Behan's autobiographical novel, Borstal Boy, was published the same year and became a...
“Light a Candle in the Window” fromMarc Gunn’s Patreon22:16 - FEEDBACK 24:22 -Joseph Carmichael"Snowdrift" from single 28:53 -Dublin Gulch"Christmas In Carrick" from The Best Of A Celtic Cowboy Christmas (Double Album) 31:21 -Mary - Kate Spring Lee"Away in A Manger/Baloo Lammy"...
In his autobiography ‘Das eigene Leben: Die Zeit der Jugend-(My own life: the time of youth) he describes the following religious/erotic experience that he had as a boy in his windswept Northern German home of Schleswig Holstein: ‘After school was over, work on the farm began. Sometimes...
Jonathan names twelve (12) slaves, the “Negro” men, Lot, Isaac and Roger, women Mereah and Phillis, a boy, Daniel,“girls” Peg, Kate, Mercy, Luce and Phillis’s two children, Cofe and Meriah. Notably, Jonathan directs that his slave, Mereah, be freed upon his death, allowed to...
This Art's descendants gave Kings to Connaught, Meath, and Orgiall; Kings or Princes to Clanaboy, Tirconnell, and Tirowen; and with only two or three exceptions, Monarchs to Ireland, up to the Anglo-Norman Invasion. From this Art also descended the Kings of Scotland, from Fergus Mór ...
Jonathan names twelve (12) slaves, the “Negro” men,Lot, IsaacandRoger, womenMereahandPhillis, a boy,Daniel, “girls”Peg, Kate, Mercy,Luceand Phillis’s two children,CofeandMeriah. Notably, Jonathan directs that his slave,Mereah, be freed upon his death, allowed to live in his house...
‘The Wran’ is not forgotten. In fact you can even find a poem written about it in the Duchas folklore records. This was recorded in the 1930s by John Levis, aged 32, who took it down from Jeremiah Driscoll, aged 64 years. Jeremiah had been a Wren Boy in Ballydehob. Here’s the...
DuringWorld War II, known at the time in Ireland as “the Emergency,” Walsh’s connections with fascism, including his association with Ailtirí na hAiséirghe, bring him to the attention of theDirectorate of Military Intelligence, the Intelligence branch of theIrish Army. Their request to the...