Maolsheachlann Ó Ceallaigh recalls the Abbey Theatre riots over The Plough and the Stars 100 years ago, where art, politics, and national identity collided, elevating Seán O’Casey’s play from scandal to classic. THERE ARE moments that are...
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O the month of May, the merry month of May, So frolic, so gay, and so green, so green, so green! O, and then did I unto my true love say: “Sweet Peg, thou shalt be my summer’s queen! Now the nightingale, the pretty nightingale, The sweetest...
Entries must be submitted to the address provided and should arrive no later than 5pm on the specified closing date. Entries received after this date will not be included. Winners will be announced in the June Summer Special, on sale Tuesday,...
I TOLD YOU some weeks ago about having the craic with Dooley as we gawked out the window of a recently opened coffee shop in town. We had our fun, as I told you, but we also got a comeuppance. Mary Comerford and Jackie Tyrell met us soon after and...
■ 6th MAY, 1936: The German airship, Hindenburg, begins its first flight to the United States, leaving Frankfurt with a crew of 56 and carrying 50 passengers. In total, it would make 17 round trips across the Atlantic in 1936. A year later, on...
IT WAS the American writer Rachel Carson who wrote that there “is something infinitely healing in the refrains of nature, the assurance that dawn comes after night, spring after winter”. She was very keen that both adults and children should...
Dear Editor, My name is Conor Hughes from the Irish charity, Crosscause, based in County Louth. Our charity equips and trains families, women’s groups and training centres in Ghana, in skills to support themselves. With this in mind, I am...