BY TONY CANAVAN Big plans for small paintings put on hold The exhibition of a collection of Irish miniature portraits, which took more than 40 years to assemble, has had […]
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Read More →BY FELIX M. LARKIN Martyn Turner, the Irish Times cartoonist since the 1970s, recently announced in the ‘Irishman’s Diary’ column in that newspaper that he had become an Irish citizen. […]
Read More →BY JAMES O’NEILL On 22 May 2020, archaeologists in Valladolid, Spain, reported the discovery of bones at an excavation to find the last resting place of Red Hugh O’Donnell, lord […]
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