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News Roundup April 9, 2022

By Róisín Chapman
IA Newsletter April 9, 2022

April 8, 2022 by Leave a Comment

World Irish Dance Championships Belfast is hosting the World Irish Dance Championships from April 10-17 and for the first time, the event will be streamed online in its entirety (via subscription) on FeisTV. This annual event, which draws thousands of Irish dancers from around the world, is hosted by An Coimisiún le Rincí Gaelacha (The Irish Dancing Commission) In 1975, at … [Read more...] about News Roundup April 9, 2022

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Irish writer Christopher Nolan wins Whitbread Book of the Year. At age 22, Nolan (1965 – 2009), who was unable to speak or move any part of his body except for his head and eyes, won one of the literary world’s most prestigious awards for his book Under the Eye of the Clock. His condition, an after-effect of asphyxiation at birth, left him only able to communicate by moving his head and eyes. A prolific writer in spite of this, Nolan published his first collection of poetry, Dam Bust of Dreams, at age 15. He published a critically acclaimed novel, The Banyan Tree, in 1999.

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