Having been relieved of the editorship of The Northern Patriot after just three issues in December 1895, it might have been expected that Alice Milligan and Anna Johnston would concentrate on their own writing as both were accomplished poets and Milligan also a talented playwright. Instead, they immediately set themselves to work to produce their […]
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The Poor Old Woman left a very rich legacy
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The long wait for freedom
An Irish politician said recently that Irish people would have got freedom sooner – and better – if the 1916 Rising had not happened. That’s a bit like saying there was no need for Einstein because somebody would have thought up the Theory of Relativity anyway; or Father Lemaitre need not have discovered the Big […]
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Master blaster misses the point… again
“That’s terrible,” said Peter Sheehan as he sat in the Bridge Bar and Grill in Glengormley watching the Munster hurling final between Limerick and Cork a few weeks ago. Peter is a Limerick man and a hurling fanatic. He came to north Belfast in the mid-1970s as a bar manager. He played for St Enda’s […]
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Bring the sweet bird song back to your garden
If only workmen weren’t so damned professional nowadays, our birdlife would be in better shape. When Dúlra was a youngster, a starling nested under a slate at the left-hand side of his bedroom window, and a house sparrow nested in a gap between the gutter board and a slate at the right-hand side of the […]
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Why Dave and Enda must now take action
WITH the obscenities that are happening in Gaza, it’s an effort to wrench attention back to our own tormented situation. But wrenched it must be, to listen as Peter Robinson tries to laugh off suggestions he might be pushed from his leader’s perch. It is, of course, no laughing matter, which is why the DUP […]
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Nature bestows its bounty on our birdlife
MAYBE it’s something to do with growing older, with the knowledge incrementally increasing with each day that you’ll not be here forever. Because recently, the sheer beauty of our surroundings has blown Dúlra away. It’s been a fantastic summer with the sun shining most of the time, but rarely producing the sweltering days that make […]
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