A BOY has died after getting into difficulty in the water in Co. Sligo. The incident occurred at Lissadell Beach on Saturday afternoon. Gardaí and emergency services, including Sligo Bay RNLI and Coast Guard helicopter Rescue 118, responded to the incident. The boy was rescued from the water and airlifted to Sligo University Hospital in a serious condition. Gardaí have revealed … [Read more...] about Boy dies after getting into difficulty in water in Co. Sligo
Boy dies after getting into difficulty in water in Co. Sligo
Police name men who died in separate road traffic collisions on Friday
POLICE have named two men who died in separate road traffic collisions on Friday as Paddy McDonald and Philip Taylor. Mr McDonald, 62, was riding a bicycle when it was involved in a collision with a car on the Monaghan Road in the Middletown area of Co. Armagh on Friday afternoon. Mr McDonald, from Castleblayney in Co. Monaghan, was sadly pronounced dead at the scene. Shortly … [Read more...] about Police name men who died in separate road traffic collisions on Friday
Canada Recognizes Irish Famine Memorial
By Michael Quigley
May/June 1996
The Irish in Canada have won a major victory over the Canadian Government on how the national historic site at Grosse Ile should be developed. The small island in the St. Lawrence River, 48 kilometers downstream from Quebec City, once served as a quarantine station, and is the burial site of thousands of Irish immigrants who died of cholera in 1832, and of typhus, ship fever, … [Read more...] about Canada Recognizes Irish Famine Memorial
Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield
Found her Voice in Ireland
Found her Voice in Ireland
In Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield: The Abolitionist "Black Swan", Professor Christine Kinealy (Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute, Quinnipiac University) shares the inspiring story of a female Black Abolitionist who became a singing sensation and found her voice on tour in Famine era Ireland.
Born into slavery, Elizabeth became known in her lifetime as the Black Swan: she broke … [Read more...] about
Found her Voice in Ireland
Remembering Alice James
By Fernando G. Carneiro
September 1992
When William of Albany, as he came to be known, left County Cavan in 1789 in search of the American dream, he could never fathom that his grandsons would become America's foremost novelist and philosopher respectively. But aside from Henry and William James, this extraordinary clan had in its midst an equal and perhaps a tad superior (as claimed by a majority of Jamesian … [Read more...] about Remembering Alice James