13 March 2017 Edition
Uafáis Earnáil an Fháilteachais
13 March 2017
TÁ SÁRÚ CEARTA oibrithe ag tarlú go forleathan in earnáil fháilteachais na Gaillimhe de réir taighde nua eisiach atá déanta ag Sinn Féin. Tá leibhéalacha do-ghlactha mí-úsáid o bhéal agus fisiciúil, ciapadh agus ionsaithe gnéís ag tarlú in óstáin agus bialanna i nGaillimh agus caithfear gníomhú chun athrú iomlán cultúr i chur i bhfeidhm iontu. Free article
Distraction tactics by political gossip
13 March 2017
SCANNING the front pages of the daily newspapers or listening to the morning talk-shows, your ‘average’ listener may be surprised to learn about some serious issues going on around them and their nearest and dearest. Free article
The legacy of Charles J Haughey
13 March 2017
I GREW UP in Edenmore, on Dublin’s northside, and Charles J Haughey was our local TD but the only time I saw him in the flesh was the day he shook hands with the crowds on Springdale Road when the Dublin Marathon passed by in 1982. Free article
A man of arts shaped by the conflict
13 March 2017
IN AN PHOBLACHT last month, ex-prisoner Laurence McKeown wrote about how he uses the arts to engage in the ‘difficult conversations’ around how we deal with the past. An Phoblacht talked to Laurence about his journey from the IRA and armed struggle to the 1981 Hunger Strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh and becoming a playwright. Free article
Tá sé in am dúinn athrú
13 March 2017
AN CEART go mbíonn lucht na Gaeilge ag fanacht go foighdeach le fáil amach cé bhéas i gceannas orainn, nó an cóir duinn bheith chómh gníomhach sin i gcúrsaí polaitiochta nach bhféadfaí gan aird a thabhairt orainn? Free article
TV’s Toffs and Thieves
13 March 2017
SO WHAT DID YOU WATCH on TV this week? A little sport? Some soaps? Maybe a little indulgent Netflix bingeing? In the Ireland of 2017, adults watch on average 3 hours 21 minutes of live television daily, according to TAM Ireland research. When you add in watching on a smartphone, PC, laptop or tablet, the viewing time grows even higher. Free article
A grim future for folklore
13 March 2017
A LONG TIME AGO, the road from our house to the village dipped and twisted into a sleepy hollow encased by a clump of trees that rustled in a gentle wind and whistled to a soft rain. Free article
The Irish freedom struggle in its social context
13 March 2017
Republicanism and Socialism in Ireland: From Wolfe Tone to James Connolly was published last year to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising. Its author, Priscilla Metscher, hails from Belfast Protestant stock and has written and lectured extensively on the politics of James Connolly. She is based in Germany, where she lectured at Oldenburg University. Free article
The challenge to achieve change
13 March 2017
THE Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI opinion poll published on 2 March shows that the two parties who have dominated the Southern state since partition are neck-and-neck in public approval ratings. Free article
Fenian historian Shane Kenna RIP
13 March 2017
DR SHANE KENNA (Seaghan Mac Cionnaith), one of Ireland’s brightest young historians, died on 27 February after a brave battle with serious illness. He died just a few days before the 150th anniversary of the Fenian Rising of 1867. Shane specialised in the history of Fenianism and in his memory we carry here an edited version of an interview with him by An Phoblacht’s Mark Moloney in 2013 on how the Fenians brought a new form of warfare to the streets of 1880s Britain and his book War in the Shadows: The Irish-American Fenians who Bombed Victorian Britain. Suaimhneas síoraí dá anam dílis. Free article