Books
Fred Astaire’s first dance partner was his sister and she ended up in Waterford
How Ireland went from a country people left to a country people came home to
Oscar Wilde, Eugene O’Neill and Michael Collins all share today’s birthday
The man who escaped slavery in Carolina and ended up living in Leinster House
The Boston Strong Boy was the last bare knuckle king and the first boxing superstar
Seamus Heaney won the Nobel 31 years ago and his townlands still feel like home
Sally Rooney dropped from UK publisher over Palestine Action support
Brendan Behan was too ill to write his last book so he talked it into a tape recorder
This 964-page book weighs 10 pounds and may be the greatest Irish history ever
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- 5 Leonard Cohen's haunting take on Kevin Barry still stops Irish listeners cold
- 6 The apostrophe in Irish names tells a story technology is erasing
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- 8 What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
- 9 The forgotten 1925 famine that Ireland's new government denied was happening