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Tag: History

  • John Butler Yeats; Anarchism & Art in the Making of Modern Ireland

    Contents Ireland in 1839 Part I: Making of a Radical “To thine own self be true” Trinity and the Law Part II: Ireland in Crisis Not So Revolutionary Ireland Young Ireland’s Alternative The Empire Strikes Back Part III: Radical Tradition John O’Leary Exiles in Garden City Arts and Crafts Movement Arts and Crafts Republic Part […]

  • The Demolition of 39 High Street

    The council and the preservation laws are facilitating, albeit inadvertently, the steady loss of the old town urban fabric. Many iconic shop fronts, residential and industrial buildings, cobbled streets, mills and weirs, have been lost over the years, a legacy that does not seem to be changing.

  • The Mind and the Colonial Death Star

    Author – Bernard Sweeney 2021 Wouldn’t it be enlightening to know the unknown, to know something you always had known deep down, and something that makes more sense once known. For example, say if someone said that the Settled Irish who believe themselves to be “the default Irish” are in fact a sub-culture of English […]

  • Queen Medb and Lakshmi, Irish Kingship and the Feminine Power

    “for ’tis I that exacted a singular vow, such as no woman before me had ever required of a man of the men of Erin, namely, a husband without avarice, without jealousy, without fear. For should he be mean, the man with whom I should live, we were ill-matched together, in as much as I […]

  • The Curious Re-Emergence of an Ancient Irish Tuath

    Indiana: Balloq’s medallion only had writing on one side? You sure about that? Sallah: Positive! Indiana: Balloq’s staff is too long. Indiana: Sallah: They’re digging in the wrong place! Raiders of the Lost Ark, (1981)   County Sligo, and the old Borough Corporation of Sligo town are roughly 400 years old, and both are creations […]

  • Why Reinstating Access to Maeves Cairn May be the Only Way to Preserve It

    The threat to Maeves Cairn on Knocknarea, Sligo and how best to approach its solution.