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.
His family moved to nearby Bellaghy when he was a boy. He became a lecturer at St. Joseph's College in Belfast in the early 1960s, after attending Queen's University and began to publish poetry. He lived in Sandymount, Dublin, from 1976 until his death. He lived part-time in the ...
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 ...
My mother loved astronomy and I remembered clear starry nights as a child in the States when we would go out stargazing with my mother and she would pull out her glow-in-the-dark star wheel and teach me and my siblings the names of planets and constellations. Emil Nolde – Light ...
Kelly’s life was fascinating enough for the 20th century writer Naomi Jacobs to publish a novel in 1950,The Irish Boy, based roughly on his life. There is also apparently, a possible film on his life in the works(2009) in Ireland. ...
After discovering Kitten in women’s clothes, Ma Braden violently scrubs her clean and whacks her with a brush until Kitten says, “I’m a boy, not a girl”. The public/house space facilitates Ma Braden’s close monitoring of Kitten thereafter.As a young writer in secondary school, ...
‘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...
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, 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...
which during my time were knocked into one the better to accommodate a growing wholesale sweet business established by Mr and Mrs Hamilton and operated by their sons, known to us kids as Freddie and Ollie. A friend of mine, Denis Maguire, worked for them as a van ...