What made them support the Rising in 1916? The answer lies in their childhoods. A skating accident, a Fenian nanny, the loss of a parent, poverty, tales of the Famine,...
I gcró na muc bhí trí mhuicín…Sna sála ar An Slipéar Gloine, tá Futa Fata ar bís an dara leabhar inár sraith d’athinsintí véarsaíochta ar na síscéalta clasaiceacha a chur...
Tá Orcó tinn tuirseach de gach duine sa teach a rá ‘Ná Dúisigh an Páiste!’Níl sé ach ag iarraidh súgradh lena bhosca nua draíochta – déanfaidh sé go deas ciúin...
The Tain Bo Cualinge, centrepiece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland’s great epic, on par with Beowulf and The Aeneid. The story of the emergence of a hero, a...
J. Robert Oppenheimer was a gifted student, a writer of poetry and fluent in many languages. He was also one of the great leaders of science in the 20th century....
Michael Davitt was born the son of poor farmers during the Great Famine. When his family were thrown out of their home by their landlord, to survive they had to...
Michael Collins had many roles in his short lifetime. He fought in the 1916 Easter Rising. He was Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Army, Minister for Finance, leader of a network...
In 1918, sailors from the famous polar ship Endurance recorded a ballad about one of their fellow crew members. The chorus went: Hail, hail, Tom Crean, hail, hail, Tom Crean,...
