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  • How Irish is Andy Burnham? Arguably more Irish than Joe Biden
  • McDaid's Folk Club
  • Belfast poet Louis MacNeice's Irish heritage was close to his heart

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irishtimes.com /1 week ago

How Irish is Andy Burnham? Arguably more Irish than Joe Biden

Plus: Patrick O’Donovan’s famine-memorial socks, TDs ignored by everyone and a marksman for the birds

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writeoutloud.net /1 week ago

McDaid's Folk Club

PHOTO: McDaid's Folk Club in Midleton, Cork © FMF 2003....

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irishcentral.com /1 month ago

Belfast poet Louis MacNeice's Irish heritage was close to his heart

"I was born in Belfast between the mountain and the gantries, To the hooting of lost sirens and the clang of trams: Thence to Smoky Carrick in County Antrim."

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irishtimes.com /4 weeks ago

A Cork-ney accent? Morgan McSweeney perplexes Westminster as he finally speaks

Plus: high tempers in the art scene, the world’s quietest communications firm, and Michael D Higgins’s gift to the nation

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irishexaminer.com /1 month ago

The Ginger Man: Seventy years since JP Donleavy's book was banned in Ireland 

The notoriety of the Irish-American author's Dublin-set tale helped ensure it was much sought after, despite the best efforts of Ireland's draconian censorship regime 

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irishcentral.com /1 month ago

Padraig Pearse and the making of a rebel leader

The poet, educator and revolutionary helped drive the Easter Rising before his execution in 1916.

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independent.ie /1 month ago

John Banville: ‘I’m counting on an aneurysm. I don’t want to be in the old folks’ home’

John Banville lives in a spacious, terraced house on a steep street in Howth village. There is art on the walls; several pieces by Irish artist Stephen Lawlor, gallery photography,...

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irishcentral.com /1 month ago

Seán Heuston’s stand at the Mendicity Institution helped shape the Easter Rising

The young Dublin rebel held a vital position on the Liffey for more than two days during Easter Week.

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irishcentral.com /1 month ago

Con Colbert and the Easter Rising stand that shaped his legacy

After learning of the surrender, Con Colbert said "our cause is postponed to a future generation."

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irishcentral.com /3 weeks ago

Leonard Cohen’s haunting rendition of Irish rebel song, "Kevin Barry"

Iconic Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen gave a memorable rendition of the famous Irish rebel song in 1972.

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irishcentral.com /1 month ago

On his birthday, Samuel Beckett’s Nobel Prize still speaks to modern Ireland

As Ireland marks the Dublin-born writer’s birthday today, his 1969 Nobel Prize remains a reminder of how profoundly he reshaped modern drama and prose.

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independent.ie /1 week ago

‘There’s more to come,’ says activists who ‘renamed’ Drury Street as Bobby Sands Street

Activists from Lasair Dhearg say they are trying to remove the names of British imperialists from the city

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irishtimes.com /1 week ago

A ‘very important figure’: Former IRA chief of staff Moss Twomey to be honoured in Co Cork

Former Fianna Fáil TD Ned O’Keeffe defends decision to honour man interned by Éamon de Valera over fears he would overthrow State

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loudersound.com /1 week ago

"Bambi turned into Darth Vader in seconds." A brief but fabulously on-brand story about Sinéad O'Connor, an Irish newspa...

Bono's best friend, Irish rock star Gavin Friday, shares a classic anecdote about the late Sinéad O'Connor

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irishcentral.com /1 month ago

The London Jew gave his life for Ireland during Easter 1916

A little-known London socialist and Jewish rebel whose final days in Dublin became part of 1916’s tragic story.

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irishcentral.com /1 month ago

Five surprising facts about some of the 1916 Easter Rising leaders

One was English-born, another played pipes for the pope.

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irishcentral.com /1 month ago

Margaret Thatcher described Francis Bacon's art as "dreadful pictures"

Born in Dublin on October 28 1909 the artist remade portraiture with raw unsettling imagery that still divides critics

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irishcentral.com /3 weeks ago

On This Day: Easter Rising leader John MacBride executed in 1916

John MacBride's involvement in the Easter Rising was, it seems, serendipitous.

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thejournal.ie /1 month ago

Man returned to pub after knocking friend unconscious and putting him in recovery position

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard Brian McKeown struck his friend four times outside the Clondalkin pub in January 2025.

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irishcentral.com /1 month ago

On This Day: Irish American novelist J.P. Donleavy born in New York

J.P. Donleavy, the New-York born author of "The Ginger Man," had as many scandals in his life as he did in his books.

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indiedockmusicblog.co.uk /1 month ago

Eoin Shannon – Every Drunk’s Gotta Story

It is half past midnight somewhere on the Lee, and the last punter has not yet stumbled home. That, precisely, is the world Eoin Shannon has conjured with this remarkable debut — a...

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independent.ie /5 days ago

Sligo man (42) with 61 previous convictions found drunk by gardaí four times in four days

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independent.ie /1 month ago

Fionnán Sheahan: Healy-Rae brothers were no chip off the old block for sticking with government

The late Séamus Brennan, the former Fianna Fáil minister, had a famous tale about his time as government chief whip.

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theguardian.com /1 week ago

Roddy Doyle: ‘When you’re a Dublin writer, you’re inevitably asked about Joyce, and it’s tedious’

The Booker prize-winning novelist and screenwriter shares the tune he’d want played at his funeral and why he’d have a couple of pints with Charles Dickens but not threeYou’ve writ...

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