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Sea Voyages With Father

Annie Burke shares memories of how her father, Jim Burke, helped her overcome childhood respiratory illness.  My son, Jim, has been after me to write down some of the remembrances of my father…

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Trailblazing CEO Maggie Timoney

2025 Business 100: Keynote Speaker Maggie Timoney is the President and CEO of HEINEKEN USA, based in White Plains, New York. During her 20-plus year tenure with the HEINEKEN Group in the U.S.,…

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Threat to Peace from
Loyalist Bombers

Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) have carried out more than 50 sectarian attacks on Catholics. since…

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Independent TDs Demand Abortion Referendum

Kerry South TD (Member of Parliament) Jackie Healy -Rae has changed his tune and added…

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October 22, 1906

The famous pianist Charles Lynch was born on this day in 1906. Born in Co. Cork to a well off family descended from novelist Maria Edgeworth (Castle Rackrent), Lynch gave his first piano recital at the young age of nine. At fifteen, he won a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He became famous through out England and premiered the works of several 20th century composers. His greatest achievement was when he played all of Liszt’s transcriptions of Beethoven’s symphonies.

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