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A Teacher Learns A Lesson

April 10, 2020 by Leave a Comment

By Tom DeignanAbout a month ago, if you’d asked me how things were going, I could only shrug.  Busy, busy, busy. My day job as an English teacher sends me on an hour and 45 minute trek from New Jersey to Brooklyn  - at a high school Mondays through Fridays, and a college on Saturdays. There’s also an after-school class wedged in there two days a week. I’ve found a … [Read more...] about A Teacher Learns A Lesson

What Social Distancing Meant During the Famine

March 27, 2020 by Leave a Comment

By Niall O'Dowd, PublisherSocial distancing during the famine was leaving your home and hearth and catching the boat to America.The hovel you left behind had a dirt floor and was often shared with animals. Dysentery, cholera, malnutrition was rife. Ventilators were the holes in the roof to let the smoke from the tiny fire escape. Once there was nothing to cook the fire went out … [Read more...] about What Social Distancing Meant During the Famine

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June 30, 1932

On this day, Eamon de Valera abolished the Oath of Allegiance, a provisional aspect in the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921. This provisional aspect originally required all members of the Irish parliament to take an oath declaring their allegiance to the King. This date also marked when de Valera withheld land annuities from England.

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