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News Roundup May 25, 2024

IA Newsletter May 25, 2024

May 24, 2023 by Leave a Comment

Ireland Calls For Palestinian State Ireland has announced plans to officially recognize a Palestinian state. Following months of consultation with like-minded countries across Europe and the Middle East, Ireland made the announcement on the same day as Spain and Norway. Three leaders of the coalition government – Taoiseach Simon Harris, Tánaiste Micheál Martin and Green … [Read more...] about News Roundup May 25, 2024

County Galway

By Sharon Ní Chonchúir, Contributor
September / October 2018

September 1, 2018 by 1 Comment

Home to some of the most spectacular scenery in the world, County Galway also features and ancient city with ties to Spain that doubles as a modern-day thriving university town.  To Hell or to Connaught, roared Cromwell’s troops. At the time, it was the direst of punishments, but if you were banished to this Irish province today and ended up in County Galway, you … [Read more...] about County Galway

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The statutes of Kilkenny passed. The Statutes of Kilkenny were a series of thirty-five acts passed at Kilkenny in 1366. The laws were ordained to put a stop to the Anglo-Normans becoming more Irish than the Irish themselves. Under the statutes, marriage between the Anglo-Normans (English) and the Irish was banned. No English man could sell an Irishman a horse or arms even in peacetime. There was even a ban on Irish games. . . “do not, henceforth, use the plays which men call horlings, with great sticks and a ball upon the ground, from which great evils and maims have arisen….”

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