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R. Bryan Willits

Fáilte Ireland and Google Partner to Map Ireland’s Historic Beauty

By R. Bryan Willits, Editorial Assistant
April / May 2016

March 25, 2016 by Leave a Comment

Irish tourist board Fáilte Ireland is partnering with Google to bring images of some of Ireland’s most beautiful and historic places to Google Street View for the first time. Using Google’s new “Trekker Loan” program, Fáilte Ireland will focus on ‘Ireland’s Ancient East,’ capturing images of medieval towns, the grounds of stately homes, and places like Newgrange. Trekker has … [Read more...] about Fáilte Ireland and Google Partner to Map Ireland’s Historic Beauty

The Bonds of a Nation,
100 Years On

By R. Bryan Willits, Editorial Assistant
April / May 2016

March 25, 2016 by 4 Comments

With the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising upon us, a curious piece of memorabilia printed 150 years ago reminds us that the Rising was not the only bid for Irish independence. In the possession of Patrick Doherty, a director in the state comptroller’s office for New York, is a Fenian bond dating from 1866. Doherty is an avid collector of Irish artifacts and a well informed … [Read more...] about The Bonds of a Nation,
100 Years On

Chef Gabe Kennedy: Living Below the Line

By R. Bryan Willits, Editorial Assistant
August / September 2015

July 24, 2015 by 1 Comment

Gabe Kennedy speaks here with R. Bryan Willits about teaching the basics of cooking in Haiti and the power of food as “a catalyst for change.” Aside from his indisputable culinary prowess, Gabe Kennedy often uses his fame as a platform to promote the idea of having a more mindful relationship with the things we eat. Kennedy, age 24, was raised in Boulder, Colorado, in a … [Read more...] about Chef Gabe Kennedy: Living Below the Line

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329 passengers were killed in a plane crash off the coast of Ireland. Air India flight 182 was en route from Montreal to Dehli, when it was blown up in Irish airspace by a bomb. Investigation into the flight led Canadian officials to believe that a Sikh militant group called Babbar Khalsa was responsible for the bombing. 280 Canadian citizens, 27 British citizens and 22 Indian citizens were lost, resulting in the largest mass murder in modern Canadian history. A monument remembering the event was unveiled in 1986 in Ahakista, Cork.

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