Culture
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2016 was inevitably an outstanding year for the history industry as publishers, writers, and those elements of the intelligentsia that love a good commemoration got to work on the Easter Rebellion’s hundredth anniversary. The Irish people have an interesting relationship with their own history. It is, like their relationship to Catholicism, frequently the subject of […]
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Do not destroy ordinary humanity: celebrate it.
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Village’s Dictionary of Irish Life
Ireland is no stranger to the subtle re-definition of language, or to saying the exact opposite of what you really mean. Village offers a torch through the murk.
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Lankum: on the cusp of the unknown
The Dublin band, recently signed to Rough Trade, has a new name and is going Big and Political.
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What ever happened to Alfie Byrne?
When Byrne died, it was assumed he would be remembered as one of the greatest Dubliners of all time. Instead, he is largely forgotten.
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Mike McGrath-Bryan speaks with Cathal MacGabhann of the Cork-based quintet.
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Failed by England
“They are from everywhere – from Asia, Africa, Europe”. Thus a North Ken resident in reaction to the horrific fire in its poorest quarter. And – in deference to his interviewer: “The Irish Diaspora is here…”. In my day, all of fifty years ago, there was no talk of ‘The Irish Diaspora’, that grand term. […]