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120 years of the Abbey Theatre

Date: Dec 3, 24
This year marks the 120th anniversary of the founding of the Abbey Theatre (Amharclann na Mainist...

Margo’s Christmas Memories

Date: Dec 3, 24
‘Although we had very little, we had everything’   Margo shares some Christmas memories wi...

A Christmas Timeline in Ireland

Date: Dec 3, 24
Maolsheachlann O Ceallaigh begins a look at what happened in each year at Christmastime in Irelan...

Just A Memory – My Mother’s Christmas Promise

Date: Dec 3, 24
By Annette Condon Temperatures reached minus 15 that Christmas. I was trudging up the hill to vi...

A Child’s Christmas in Cavan – Michael Harding

Date: Nov 27, 24
Irish author Michael Harding has written a stunning new memoir. To mark his 70th birthday, he too...

The Story of Poughkeepsie – on the Eve of Christmas Eve

Date: Nov 27, 24
Johnny B. Broderick explains how one of singer Seán Keane’s best loved songs originated on a trai...

The Great Remakes – A Christmas Carol

Date: Nov 27, 24
Mick Jordan takes a look at a Charles Dickens’ classic that has been made into a movie many times...

A Window to Past Christmases

Date: Nov 27, 24
Damian Corless takes us on an enertaining trip down Memory Lane looking at what was on Irish tele...

The Missing Postman: A Christmas Day Mystery

Date: Nov 27, 24
  By Colm Wallace One of the most perplexing and mysterious cases in the history of the Ir...

The Spanish Armada and Ireland

Date: Nov 19, 24
Philip II's Spanish Armada set out from Lisbon in 1588 with the aim of invading England, but it n...