Ireland’s Pioneers in Medicine: A Lasting Legacy
Take Robert James Graves, a Dublin-born physician whose insistence on careful observation helped drag medicine from superstition into science.
The Faeries of the Sacred Sites of Ireland ~ Video
These stories include warnings of field-bound music that compels dancers into the night. Some changelings vanish into hawthorn-rich fields. These stories also talk about ancestral family โcuresโ tied to fairy lore.
Ireland. A People Scattered, A Culture Remembered
In Canada, they shaped frontier towns and early settler identity. In Australia, some arrived in chains, yet their descendants helped shape the nation. And in Britain, they rebuilt cities after the war, while facing persistent discrimination.
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ฏ๐๐ฅ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐ฐ๐๐๐ง ๐๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ ~ Video
Irelandโs โGolden Ageโ lasted from roughly the 6th to 12th centuries. It produced one of the greatest cultural flowerings in medieval Europe.
THE PLUCK OF THE IRISH
Many great literary figures, often regarded as English, are actually of Irish descent. Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Bram Stoker. Listening to Chopinโs nocturnes is one of lifeโs greatest reveries. However, Irishman John Field is the father of the piano nocturne.
The Spanish Invasion โ 6.000 BC
By analyzing genetic samples from 10,000 volunteers across Britain and Ireland, the team found that people of Celtic ancestry share an almost identical DNA signature with coastal Spaniards, whose ancestors crossed the Bay of Biscay between 4,000 and 5,000 BC.
Peig Sayers: The Keeper of Irish Storytelling
Scholars and folklorists travelled to that remote island just to record her voice, knowing they were witnessing something that was vanishing from the modern world. In 1936, though Peig couldn’t write, her son Micheรกl transcribed her life story as she spoke it.
DUBLIN IN FLAMES AFTER MIGRANT OUTRAGE ~ VIDEO
The child victim, who was under state care, was assaulted after sheย absconded from staff whilst on a planned recreational trip with staff in the city center,ย the agency said.
REAL HISTORY ~ THE BLACK AND TANS
โLet them die there โ the more the merrier.ย The police and military will patrol the country. They are not to confine themselves to the main roads, but make across the country, lie in ambush and, when civilians are seen approaching, shout โHands up!โ Should the order not be immediately obeyed, shoot and shoot with effect.
IRELANDโS TOP MOVIE STAR RECOMMENDS BOOKS
Home, for me, isn’t just an address; it’s a state of being. It’s the rich aroma of my morning coffee filling the quiet air. It’s the satisfying click of the lock as I shut out the noise of the day. It’s sinking into my favorite armchair with a well-loved book.
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