THIS week’s article about Irish peacekeeping troops is told by a former soldier.
THE hardest part about writing this article is distinguishing between Irish folk and traditional music.
THIS WEEK, I would like to reflect on an article I wrote for Carloviana in 2000, and I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would be reflecting on it in 2011.
TIMES PAST
With Willie White
AMERICAN author Upton Sinclair, who died aged 90 in 1968, described Christmas as a mixture of bunkum and graft, where greed and waste have turned a day intended to honour the “lowly Jesus” into a binge of overeating and pointless spending.
PUTTING UP the crib is an important occasion.
TWO years after the Titanic went down, another shipping disaster to rival that tragedy took place when the Canadian Pacific Railways-owned liner RMS (Royal Mail Services) Empress of Ireland sank in the St Lawrence River.
THE Connaught Rangers, an Irish regiment of the British Army, was formed in 1881 by an amalgamation of the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) and the 94th Regiment of Foot.
THIS is a different view of the War of Independence, looking at how it started and recalling some of the incidents.
THIS is one of those articles where every reader will have their own view.
TIMES PAST
With Willie White
THIS is the strange tale of a postman Larry Griffin from Kilmacthomas, County Waterford, who was murdered on Christmas Day 1929.