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PRESIDENT Michael D Higgins has unveiled a plaque honouring the link between the iconic Irish author James Joyce and a graveyard in Co. Galway. The tribute was officially revealed in Rahoon Cemetery to mark the connection of the grave of Michael ‘Sonny’ Bodkin with Joyce, his wife Nora Barnacle and his short story The Dead. Published in 1914 the tale was released within Joyce’s … [Read more...] about Plaque unveiled honouring connection between James Joyce’s The Dead and a Galway graveyard

THE Liverpool Irish Festival (LIF) has launched a contest to find a fitting song that will mark the legacy of the Irish Famine in the city. Songwriters are being asked to submit their ideas for a tune which will honour the lives lost or impacted by the period known as the Great Famine or An Gorta Mór. Between 1845-52 mass starvation and disease caused by the potato blight … [Read more...] about Contest launched to find new song commemorating lives lost to Irish Famine

A WRITER whose research into the ‘disappeared’ led to the discovery of one of the bodies has revealed that the practice has been in use in Ireland for some 200 years. Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc has spent the past decade researching the fate of the ‘disappeared’, those who were abducted by the IRA, secretly executed and had their bodies buried in remote bogs, lakes and woodlands never … [Read more...] about Author who located body of one of Ireland’s ‘disappeared’ reveals brutal practice has been in use for centuries

A FORMER police officer who strangled his ex-girlfriend and left her unconscious in a hotel room has been jailed for attempted murder. James Riley, of Preston, Lancashire was sentenced to 16 years at Manchester Crown Court after pleading guilty to the offence. The court heard that the 28-year-old, who was an off-duty officer with Lancashire Police, had brutally attacked his … [Read more...] about Former police officer who strangled ex-girlfriend jailed for attempted murder

Irish basketball player CJ Fulton may be making a big impression on the US college basketball scene but it was his pals who stole the limelight after a recent game. The 21-year-old Charleston Cougars guard from Belfast contributed six points and four assists in his team's 80-62 victory over Elon Phoenix on Friday. However, it was the former St Malachy's College student's … [Read more...] about ‘We taught him everything he knows’: Rising Irish basketball star’s pals steal show as they crash US press conference