Bill Gallagher Bill Gallagher

They used to call it “De Valera’s Ireland”

The complicated legacy of Eamon de Valera will be the stuff of arguments for years to come among the Irish. It was fifty years ago that he died after a reign that lasted most of the 20th century.

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Bill Gallagher Bill Gallagher

See something. Say Nothing.

Dolours Price in costume as she pulls off a bank robbery with her sister Marian in the opening of Episode Two of the Hulu series Say Nothing, based in Belfast in the 197os.

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Nogher McGinley Nogher McGinley

Modern Irish History

“Significant symbolic moment.” “Once unthinkable.” “A truly seismic breakthrough.” In Belfast, Michelle O’Neill of Sinn Fein has become the first non-Protestant to lead Northern Ireland.

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Portland Hibernian Society Portland Hibernian Society

Build the Nation: A Blessing

by Father Jim Galluzzo. Delivered at the fifteenth anniversary of the dedication of the Oregon Potato Famine Memorial - 13 December 2023 - Mount Calvary Cemetery Portland Oregon.

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