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Róisín Chapman
IA Newsletter December 11, 2021

December 10, 2021 by 1 Comment

Storm Barra hits Ireland As Covid restrictions increase across Europe, residents of the Emerald Isle found themselves staying at home for an entirely different reason. Storm Barra battered the UK and Ireland earlier this week, leaving 59,000 Irish homes without power. Originally hitting the south-west, Barra moved upwards, and the north-west of Ireland, as well as Scotland, … [Read more...] about News Roundup

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

March 28, 1820

On this day in 1820, Sir William Howard Russell was born in Tallaght, County Dublin. Russell is considered one of the first modern war correspondents, though he is known to have despised the term. As a young reporter, Russell spent twenty-two months covering the Crimean War, which was one of the first wars to be documented extensively in both written reports and in photographs. Florence Nightingale acknowledged that it was Russell’s reports which inspired her to become involved with wartime nursing. During his coverage of the the Siege of Sevastopol, Russell coined the phrase “thin red line,” in reference to British troops. He retired as a battlefield correspondent in 1882, and was knighted in 1895.

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