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The city that fought an empire (Free article)
18 December 2008
FROM where the editorial staff of An Phoblacht in Dublin work, in 58 Parnell Square, we'll often hear the voice of Pádraig, the Sinn Féin tour guide, embarking on 'The Rebel Tour'. While down at the entrance of 58, having an (occasional) cigarette, I'll earwig on Pádraig as he launches his account of the capital's rebel past.
Christmas traditions - The weird, the wonderful and the Irish (Free article)
18 December 2008
SO YOU THINK you know what makes a traditional Christmas? Well think again. Some of our deeply-held Christmas traditions are actually relatively new. Exhibit A: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - created in 1939. Exhibit B: The idea of Christmas with "chestnuts roasting on an open fire" - written in 1944... during a sweltering July!
Coiste Political Tours: Reclaiming our history (Free article)
18 December 2008
THE Falls Road in Belfast is a completely changed place from when I first travelled it.
Adams to launch Gib exposé (Free article)
18 December 2008
GERRY ADAMS will launch the poem Gib: A Modest Exposure, by Jack Mitchell, in Cultúrlann MacAdaim Ó Fíaich on Belfast's Falls Road this Saturday, 20 December, at 2pm. This year is the 20th anniversary of the killings on 'The Rock'.
Remembering the Past: The last of the Invincibles (Free article)
18 December 2008
THE Irish National Invincibles were an off-shoot of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and were active in Dublin in the early 1880s. They were a conspiratorial group that sought to destabilise British rule in Ireland by assassinating leading figures in the Dublin Castle regime.
Exhibition and lecture commemorates John Joe McGirl (Free article)
18 December 2008
THIS month marks the 20th anniversary of the death of former Sinn Féin Vice President John Joe McGirl. For over 50 years John Joe played a leading role in the republican struggle. His many years of republican activism saw John Joe become a household name throughout Ireland and he witnessed imprisonment in the Curragh internment camp, Mountjoy Jail…
Shining a light in cultural darkness (Free article)
18 December 2008
POETRY REVIEW At Least for a While By Pearse Hutchinson The Gallery Press
Fifth Column xmas quiz (Free article)
18 December 2008
THESE turkeys escaped the festive feast table so here's the doubtfully famous Fifth Column Christmas Quiz of the slim pickings of 2008 to mull over in your downtime during the merry mayhem. Ho, ho, ho?
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