Roots
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- 5 First oil tankers leave Whitegate as Gardaí clash with protestors at the site
- 6 On This Day: USS Jamestown sent to Ireland on a Famine-relief mission
- 7 On This Day: Handel's "Messiah" premiered in Fishamble Street, Dublin
- 8 The poetry of Irish sayings and phrases
- 9 On his birthday, Seamus Heaney’s Nobel win still resonates across Ireland and beyond
History
On This Day: Handel's "Messiah" premiered in Fishamble Street, Dublin
On his birthday, Samuel Beckett’s Nobel Prize still speaks to modern Ireland
Ten little known facts about Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising
On his birthday, Seamus Heaney’s Nobel win still resonates across Ireland and beyond
The dazzling life of Mabelle Gilman Corey
Genealogy