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Soul Searching with Nathan Johnston and The Angels of Libra at Monroe’s Live
Hailing from Hamburg, the Angels of Libra are a captivating force in soul. Together with Irish singer-songwriter Nathan Johnston, they will bring old school soundscapes and modern grooves to Monroe’s Live on Saturday, April 27, at 11pm.
Germans play hurling, Spaniards play Gaelic football in TG4’s “Cluiche As Baile”
The unique experience of GAA clubs on the European continent is explored in a new programme which airs on TG4 tonight (Thursday), ‘Cluiche As Baile’, or ‘The Away Game’ in English. While people in Ireland may not realise, there are dozens of GAA clubs in cities all across Europe - some without any Irish people at all.
A lone figure at Bohermore cemetery
William Joyce recorded his final broadcast on April 30 1945 as the last great battle of the war raged. Russian troops, after a desperate struggle, finally wrenched Berlin from the grip of the Nazis. The once great city was then little more than streets of rubble. In an iconic World War II photograph Soviet troops fly the Soviet flag over the Reichstag May 2 1945.
‘Irish dockworkers fought elbow to elbow with old Jewish men in Hasidic hats...’
William Joyce’s notorious broadcasts to Britain, which continued throughout the six years of World War II, initially came from the studios in Berlin, later transferred to Luxembourg city, due to heavy Allied bombing, and finally from Apen, near Hamburg. The broadcasts were relayed over a wide network of German controlled radio stations in Zeesen, Hamburg, Bremen, Luxembourg, Hilversum, Calais, and Oslo. It had a huge potential audience, and was seen as a vital propaganda tool for Nazi Germany.
The boy from the Jes, who became the voice of Germany
The late Billy Naughton, College Road, said he spluttered into his cup of tea, when he instantly recognised the upper-class, nasal drawl, of William Joyce reporting continuous Nazi victories on Radio Hamburg, Reichsrundfunk, during its English-language broadcast in October 1939. He was ridiculed as ‘Lord Haw-Haw’ and was the butt of Musical Hall jokes, yet he was listened to and despised for his clever mix of fact and lies.
Aleksandr Nisse to play Galway Cathedral tonight
Aleksandr Nisse, Titular Organist at Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral, gives the next concert in Galway Cathedral’s summer series, playing an organ recital on Thursday 4 August at 8:00pm.
The woman at the door of Tyrone House
On the afternoon of March 18 1912, Violet Martin and her friend Tilly Redington, arrived at the door of Tyrone House, the home of the less than ordinary St George family. The three storey house, in the luxurious Palladian style, and said to be sumptuously decorated inside, is dramatically located by the estuary of the Kilcolgan river, about 2 miles distant from Kilcolgan village.
The end of the line
Fifteen years before the Galway-Clifden railway started, the first light-rail track laid in Galway was the tram service to Salthill. For more than 39 years a series of horse-drawn trams ran from the depot in Forster Street, along the east and south sides of Eyre Square, heading west through Shop Street and Dominick Street, over the bridge, and along the Salthill road. Then it was in the countryside with open fields and thatched cottages. The line came to an end at the Eglinton Hotel (now a hostel), where the horse was switched to the other end of the tram for the return journey. The Eglinton became Europe’s most westerly tram terminus.
BallinaPunx new compilation brings the spirit of punk to life
BallinaPunx was born in 2003, as a collective of kindred musical spirits based in the Mayo town. The goal was to give voice to the town’s thriving alternative, punk and metal artists.