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In ancient times, fosterage played an important role in Irish society, but the process was governed by strict and complex rules as specified in the Brehon Laws.
"Everything I think of is colored by its history, by its literature, by its people, by its geography," O'Toole told American TV host Charlie Rose in a 1994 interview.
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Did you ever wonder who the hard-working folks of Ireland managed to get up on time before the invention of the alarm clock? The solution was ingenious... if a little odd.
Quinnipiac University is working on plans to move Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum collection elsewhere - or, as most see it, to break it up, which would be a real tragedy.
Irish trade union leader Mike Quill once offered advice to President Dwight D. Eisenhower when the president became frustrated by a dispute among elite US universities.
On August 22, 1922, Michael Collins was shot in an ambush. A remarkable photo of "The Big Fella" taken just hours before his death was uncovered in an attic.
"The vast transcultural history of Irish traditional music remains obscured by narrow research agendas and binary debates about tradition and innovation."