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The Lion that roared
Ireland has a long history of individuals, groups, and charities assisting homeless people through charitable donations, fundraising activities, voluntary work, and the provision of accommodation. While philanthropic efforts can never solve the problem of homelessness, such endeavours have left their mark in the historical archives.
Crime World show coming to Galway
Crime World, the weekly Sunday World podcast about criminals, drugs and the sins of the underworld hosted by investigative journalist Nicola Tallant, is coming to life with Omertà: A journey into the dark heart of Ireland’s criminal underworld – and the murders that shatter its sacred code.
EYE Cinema screening of The Peculiar Sensation of Being Pat Ingoldsby
"There is something healing about watching Ingoldsby, a man who is both outside of and ahead of his time, battling against the tide of 1960s (and onwards) Irish conformity." The Irish Times
Pat McCabe’s ‘Frank Pig Says Hello’ at Roscommon Arts Centre
Twenty five years after its first ground breaking tour, Pat McCabe's 'Frank Pig Says Hello' takes to the stage at Roscommon Arts Centre on Tuesday, October 23 at 8pm, in a new production that brilliantly captures the legendary original.
David McSavage - live and dangerous
DAVID MCSAVAGE, "the comic equivalent of dynamite fishing," according to the Official Edinburgh Fringe Magazine, and "one of Ireland’s funniest comedians," says The Irish Mirror, comes to the Róisín Dubh this weekend.
Remembering the people’s poet
Patrick Kavanagh never spoke about poetry or literature to his friends. The Monaghan born poet and novelist, who grew up on a small farm, was more inclined to talk about everyday news, politics, Marilyn Monroe, horse racing, and goodlooking, rich women or medical students who caught his eye. And there were quite a few of these!
The professor in his wife’s overcoat
Tom Dillon, originally from Co Sligo, married Geraldine Plunkett, on Easter Sunday 1916. The Plunkett family were practically all committed to the Rising, and the subsequent War of Independence. Tom qualified from UCD as a chemist, worked with the Volunteers, and supplied them with a steady stream of hand grenades and bombs. In May 17 1918 he was arrested and interned with other Irish Rebels, in Gloucester prison, England.
