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News Roundup February 25, 2023

February 21, 2023 by Leave a Comment

National Famine Commemoration Date Announced  This year’s National Famine Commemoration will be held in Milford, Co. Donegal, on Sunday, May 21.   The commemoration will be broadcasted on RTÉ News Now channel. “The National Famine Commemoration is a special opportunity for the current generation to acknowledge the suffering, death, and anguish borne by the … [Read more...] about News Roundup February 25, 2023

Fall 2022 Book Reviews

By Darina Molloy

Fall 2022

October 11, 2022 by Leave a Comment

Haven by Emma Donoghue It’s seventh-century Ireland. Clonmacnoise is a newish monastic settlement, with about thirty monks in residence, along with the families who work for them and an order of nuns. The monastery also offers temporary accommodation to guests who come to study or just to retreat from the world. One of these visitors, Artt, believes in harder fasting than is … [Read more...] about Fall 2022 Book Reviews

News Roundup June 18, 2022

By Emily Moriarty
IA Newsletter, June 18, 2022

June 15, 2022 by Leave a Comment

A New Northern Ireland Protocol Bill On Monday, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, The Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, introduced a bill that the EU says is in violation of the Good Friday Agreement. The new plan proposes that goods being sent to Northern Ireland by trusted vendors from the U.K. are in the “Green Lane” and … [Read more...] about News Roundup June 18, 2022

An Irish Slant on the English Language

By Dan Casey

January 2000

July 13, 2021 by Leave a Comment

Terence P. Dolan's Dictionary of Hiberno-English is not like any other dictionary or, for that matter, like any other reference volume. It's the first general dictionary of the Irish dialect of English ever published and, in spite of its heady title, a good read for Irish and Irish-American word-hoarders and word-mongers -- from the burly longshoremen on Pier 54 to the … [Read more...] about An Irish Slant on the English Language

Motherfoclóir: A New Kind of Irish Language Revival

By Sharon Ní Chonchúir, Contributor
February / March 2018

January 29, 2018 by 1 Comment

Darach Ó Séaghdha has been putting the fun back into the Irish language by translating words into English in a humorous, thought-provoking way, and deftly using Twitter to expand his audience. He now continues the exercise in a new book, Motherfoclóir, in which he also reflects on the role the Irish language played in his own life.  ℘℘℘ The people of Ireland have a strange … [Read more...] about Motherfoclóir: A New Kind of Irish Language Revival

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