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No such thing as "No Irish Need Apply" signs argues history professor (IrishCentral)

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 04:52:08 PDT

By: IrishCentral Staff Writers

Editor’s note: Richard Jensen retired Professor of History, University of Illinois, Chicago wrote a provocative piece referred to by a reader arguing that the No Irish Need Apply signs were a myth. Here is an abridged version of his article.

The past will come alive at the second History Festival of Ireland in Carlow (IrishCentral)

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:28:59 PDT

By: IrishCentral Staff Writers

The second History Festival of Ireland is due to take place this weekend, the 15th & 16th June, in Duckett’s Grove, County Carlow.

A look at books - Irish history, fiction and biography to get your teeth in to (IrishCentral)

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 04:47:45 PDT

Vengeance By Benjamin BlackBenjamin Black is the pen name of award winning Irish novelist and Booker Prize winner John Banville, which means that the prose stylings of this impressively literary whodunit (and the focus on fully realized characters) are much finer than the genre usually affordsBlack/Banville assembles a cast of upscale but sulphurous Dubliners, including one of Ireland’s most successful – and, it turns out, suicidal -- businessmen, then he exposes the corrupt and corrupting world they live in where money and sex trump all other considerations Detective Inspector Hackett and his pinstriped consultant pathologist sidekick Quirke find themselves pulled ever deeper into the mysterious case and into dangerous the orbit of Dublin’s elite What Black/Banville does with particular facility is to create a climate of suspicion and dread that turns this surprisingly sordid tale into a page-turner of the highest order READ MORE

A History of Ireland in 100 objects - a great free app (IrishCentral)

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 07:02:32 PDT

To mark Ireland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union, here is a wee present from the people of Ireland to the people of the world, for St Patrick’s Day!The Royal Irish Academy, the National Museum of Ireland and The Irish Times are collaborating with the EU Presidency, the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade and Adobe to bring you a gift of A History of Ireland in 100 objectsIt is available as an interactive app for Apple iPhone and iPad, for most Android tablets and on the Kindle Fire, from our website, as well as associated app stores You can also experience the book on your computer, smartphone or eReader by clicking on the 'eBook' button belowThe Gift is free to download until the end of March READ MORE

Visiting the Dublin's Natural History Museum and discovering Donegal marine collector Maude Delap (IrishCentral)

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 05:32:13 PDT

The Delap Sisters Courtesy of the National Science & Engineering Plaques CommitteeYesterday I took myself to the Natural History Museum (or, "the dead zoo,") on Merrion Street The grand grey buildings felt a little out of place in the bustle and brick of the city center, looking more like London or Brussels than good old Dub I walked past the entrance by accident and had to backtrack to find my way in, but that gave me time to admire all the little bushes trimmed into the shapes of animals prancing around the museum’s yardThe ground floor, dedicated to Irish species, is tiled in red and black and is filled with freestanding dark wood and glass cases holding dozens of animals in each diorama READ MORE

Visiting Ireland's history - remarkable images of South Dublin then and now - PHOTOS (IrishCentral)

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 05:31:35 PST

PHOTOS - check out out more postcards of South Dublin then and now here Here at The Gathering Dublin we're very happy to share an initiative courtesy of Local Studies Collection, South Dublin Libraries Have a look at these postcards recently released that showcase South Dublin in the past and as it is today Enjoy!Quite remarkable, I think you'll agree In the present day our tournaments are all lining up, take a look at our website to see our new calendar of events READ MORE

Irish rugby hail the most successful weekend in its history -- Ladies beat England, U20s beat England, the clubs beat England and a close game for the men's I XV at the Aviva (IrishCentral)

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 05:46:34 PST

Fiona Coughlan Ireland's female rugby captainWhat an awesome weekend of Irish victories and momentum with the Ladies taking England apart in the greatest yet performance, the U20s played it perfectly beating England with a Scholes try and the Clubs win through a Ballynahinch / Stuart Morrow try!The weekend started on Friday night with the Ireland U20s team facing England in what is undoubtedly the future of both national men's squads The Ireland coaching team and strategy developers had completely analyzed the English play in previous games and the squad had a very simple game plan to nullify the one way that England play and that is with crash ball Having absorbed everything and gone behind on the scoreline when the England team had become a spent force Ireland struck with the killer blow, a perfectly worked try on the wing which was duly converted Ireland held the game at this level until the final whistle was sounded on a superb victory READ MORE

Ulster Rugby v Leinster Rugby - OK SO THIS WILL BE THE GREATEST FIGHT I THE HISTORY OF ULSTER & IRISH RUGBY (IrishCentral)

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 10:16:32 PST

Everyone in Ireland is talking about Ulster Rugby, everyone in the rugby world is talking about Ulster Rugby With a devastating and massively powerful display against Northampton Saints in the Heineken Cup on Saturday past, a side who are renowned for their physical play and scrum dominance Ulster Rugby took them apart in what one Northampton commentator called an embarrassing night for English rugby! To put it in the most direct terms - this is without a shadow of a doubt the greatest Ulster Rugby team in the history of the province! Now, lets reflect on the fact that Leinster another of the 4 Irish provinces are the current Heineken cup holders, a competition that sees all the best teams in Europe compete, then the mind simply boggles on the connotations of say an All Ireland European Cup Final (same as last year) between Ulster & Leinster, but this time, not in Twickenham the famous English stadium but in Ireland's International stadium The Aviva, in Dublin!This is the stuff of legends, it would simply be the biggest period of Irish Rugby dominance in the history of European RugbyThe club scene in Ireland is a buzz of rugby fanaticism READ MORE

A look at Irish books - from comedy and Typhoid Mary to history and more (IrishCentral)

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 05:31:16 PST

Wacky EireBy Geraldine ComiskeyIreland is the acknowledged home of surrealism and Geraldine Comiskey (a roving reporter for the Sunday World) often has occasion to encounter it at its source Having a journalistic resume that includes getting set on fire by stuntmen, dancing on the wings of a World War II bi-plane (well, who hasn’t?) and joining a circus trapeze troupe, she’s clearly ready for anythingIreland in Comiskey’s book is a magical place where all manner of weirdness awaits you down almost very boreen, so in a way her job is an ideal one, scouring the nation in search of funHer book is an eye-popping procession of dodgy faith healers, rural swingers, ghost hunters, GAA players, all of Irish life really READ MORE

Look at books - Irish artists, fiction and history (IrishCentral)

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 06:32:36 PDT

Prodigals And GeniusesBy Brendan LynchThe Irish love a good pub within walking reach and Ireland’s most gifted artists and thinkers have been no exception As Paris has it’s Left Bank and New York has its Upper West Side, for decades Dublin’s bohemian quarter has been centered around Baggot Street and Leeson Street, fringed by the Grand Canal Among it’s familiars were four winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature and nearly every major Irish writer of the 19 century, including Oscar Wilde, WB READ MORE

Will Martin McGuinness end up as Irish president like De Valera? -- All things possible after handshake with Queen opens new possibilities (IrishCentral)

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 04:45:37 PDT

Martin McGuinnessSo Martin McGuinness and Queen Elizabeth II shook hands I wonder if it was what they thought it would be like? Time will tellBrian Hayes of Fine Gael called it a publicity stunt by the ‘failed Presidential candidate,’ a bit rich I thought coming from a government party whose candidate went around the country at the time of that election like a bloody old farmyard hen He only got 6 READ MORE

From Celtic mythology to surfing on the west coast – taking advantage of all Ireland has to offer (IrishCentral)

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 07:30:18 PST

Enjoying the surf off the coast of IrelandMonday was our first day of classes at National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) We woke up to the sun shining for the first time since we had arrived in Galway, what a wonderful way to start the weekThese first two weeks are used to kind of shop around to see what sort of classes you may like to take It feels odd not having registered months in advance like I’m used to at ASU READ MORE

Exiled Gaels and sporting rebels of Ireland - part III (IrishCentral)

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:15:14 PDT

Still from the 'Gaelic Gold' DVDIn this the final of our three part look at the clash of the ash and salmon like leaps for midfield aerial supremacy across the world of Gaelic games, we recall some famous and infamous Gaelic sporting events from days of yore, where in some remote or fabled corner there remains fields and memories which remain forever Irish Ireland v Scotland, 1897- at Celtic FC soccer grounds, Parkhead, the first Hurling Shinty International MatchMichael Cusack himself presented the Celtic Times Challenge Cup (in whose honor this parish is named) in 1897 to mark the first international hurling/shinty match between Ireland and Scotland at the soccer grounds of Celtic FC in Parkhead, and indeed officiated thereafter at a return match played at Jones’ Road in Dublin that same yearIt marked the culmination of close ties and communication between the Scottish Caledonian Society and Irish cultural and sporting revivalists since the early moves to form the GAAJohn Murdoch, the renowned Scottish land league leader and founder/editor of The Highlander newspaper had, along with fellow Scot and entrepreneur, Morrison Millar, (who helped Cusack establish the Celtic Times newspaper) cultivated sporting links with Irish sports enthusiasts READ MORE

Exiled Gaels and Irish sporting rebels: part 2 (IrishCentral)

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:55:34 PDT

GAA: beloved for generations across all agesPart 1: Exiled Gaels and sporting rebels - Exotic stories of Gaelic and indigenous games The intensely passionate addiction for Gaelic sports held by Irish ex-pats did not just form after the establishment of the GAA in 1884 There are accounts the world over which narrates the Irish grá for the clash of the ash and the big ball in the years and centuries prior to the clarion call for formal organization of these sports went out from the Dergvale Hotel of Dublin to Hayes’ Hotel in ThurlesThere are accounts on intrepid Gaels such as Chevalier Thomas O’Gorman and the Wild Geese of Paris O’Gorman from Tullycrine, County Clare was born into a wealthy Catholic family in 1718 READ MORE

Irish heritage website of the week - Ireland's National Museum (IrishCentral)

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:55:18 PDT

National Museum of Ireland, Kildare StreetWe are staring a new resolution here at the Celtic Times corner, a shout to an honoured Celtic Times Heritage website of the week: wwwmuseumieCheck out the National Museum’s website for an update on what’s up at their venues in Kildare Street and Collins’ Barracks in Dublin (there is a museum link bus to shuttle visitors between the two locations), and at the Museum of Country Life in Castlebar, Mayo READ MORE

The restoration of the ruined heart of the midlands, St Mel's, and the New Ireland of Auckland (IrishCentral)

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 05:25:20 PDT

St Mel's Cathedral On Christmas Day 2009, residents of Longford town woke up to find its landmark St Mel's Cathedral ablaze, and with it, the county's most prestigious collection covering the full span of the region's history, including priceless artefacts like the magnificent bronze wrapped yew Crozier of St Mel himself, and the Shrine of St Cailin READ MORE

In the footsteps of saints, scholars and sinners - A Celtic camino (IrishCentral)

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:25:21 PDT

Confessio Patricus, the written confessions of St Patrick, have a special resonance today, in this the age of damning reports from Raphoe to Cloyne on an infected church in an era of overwhelmingly disinterested, disconnected younger generations and demoralized older onesPatrick apparently was an unbecoming upstart figure to his clerical peers in the mid fifth century, and the Confessio was all about setting the record straight from his own perspective A fifth century tribunal response, if you like, where the once enslaved Briton shepherd boy of part Roman stock (some sources indicate Kilpatrick, near Glasgow was his birthplace) sets down in his own hand the circumstances that led to his mission to Ireland and how he went about answering the callIndeed Dáibhí Ó Croinín a superb lecturer who could entice 9am attendances on hazy Friday mornings in Galway, quipped that Patrick, must have been the only citizen of the Roman empire to have been made a slave and live to tell the tale READ MORE

Guests of the nation: Queen Elizabeth, Obama, Ireland's history and its future (IrishCentral)

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:25:11 PDT

Queen's visit to the Garden of Remembrance Source: Government PoolThe much heralded and trumpeted visits of presidents and monarchs have come and gone, and dignity fatigue has kicked in as the Irish masses are said to be on the verge of national meltdown from collective good behaviour and putting on such a brave showOur Taoiseach has gone on primetime TV to specially congratulate us, the people on “not bringing shame on our nation” during the queen’s visit One Sunday paper, the likely candidate, was even peddling headlines like, “proud to be Irish, proud to be British”Just as the Scots are on verge of striking camp and declaring nationhood, there are some seriously flirtatious eyes being made in some media and governing circles here at a common wealth with the perilous state of the collective coffers being cited READ MORE

Bashing the Irish -- a break neck run down on Ireland's history of betrayal (IrishCentral)

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 02:40:15 PST

Hugh Roe O'Donnell (An Ó Domhnaill)After Kinsale the sovereignty of Ireland sailed to Galicia or "Gael land," to regroup and try again They established an Irish College at Santiago de Compostela O'Donnell was poisoned on-board a ship and died en route to ally with the King of Spain He was one of countless Irish leaders that were physically assaulted or murdered in the pursuit of compliance and assistance in the cessation and usurpation of Irish nationhood READ MORE

World Cup Versus World History (IrishCentral)

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:10:10 PDT

I love living in New York City You can take a trip around the world without ever leaving town I especially like being here during the World Cup Soccer gives me something to talk about with my man from Afghanistan who runs the coffee cart near my office, and to Levy from Equador who runs the service elevator and brings me up with my bike, and Roger from Trinidad who heads the maintenance crew and is a soccer aficionado READ MORE