Irish history isn't just one long cataloge of battles and privations. In the early Middle Ages the country's reputation was enviable throughout Europe.
Book review: "The Adoption Machine" by Paul Jude Redmond - Ireland, from the year it received it's independence in 1922, set the global standard for the mistreatment of single women and girls aged from 12 to 48, as well as the neglect or cruel mistreatment of their babies.
Almost 70 years since the University of Buffalo bought the greatest collection of Joycean materials ever assembled, plans are afoot to bring the priceless manuscripts, first editions, notebooks, letters and even canes and eye-glasses of the famed author to Ireland.
The award-winning author has been given the title of Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, the second-highest rank in the British honours system.
Not many girls from the Bogside in Derry have ended up living in a fabulous mansion in Malibu, and no one is more surprised about it than the Derry girl it actually happed to, Roma Downey.
Perhaps Irishman Bram Stoker wasn’t inspired by Romanian legends. There’s plenty of evidence that suggests his masterpiece Dracula came from Irish horror stories.
