By Róisín Kennedy In a much-quoted letter, written in 1938, the writer Samuel Beckett expressed his ‘chronic inability to understand … a phrase like “the Irish people” or to imagine […]
Read More →By Aidan O’Hara Delia Murphy was the best-known Irish woman of her day, and the most popular female vocalist in Ireland from the late 1930s to the early ’50s. She […]
Read More →By Seán Ryan Much has been written in recent years about the role of women in the Irish revolutionary period, 1913–23. Many new names have come to prominence and their […]
Read More →By Julitta Clancy ‘What an effect might be caused in Ulster were some friendly advance to be made to her now—were the boycott to be called off and a real […]
Read More →By Hannah Baker Portrait-painter and social reformer Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863–1941) was born in Holywood, Co. Down. After the death of her father in 1873 her family relocated to London, […]
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