Irish Manuscripts

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PEN Heaney Prize launched

The Irish Times 12 Apr 2024

Irish Times Eason offer is Everyone Here Is Lying by Shari Lapena, just €5.99 ... In The Irish Times this Saturday, Niamh Mulvey tells Niamh Donnelly about her brilliant debut novel, The Amendments.

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Irish heritage is part of the fabric of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh Tribune Review 15 Mar 2024

By 1850, 10,000 Irish immigrants were living in Pittsburgh ... “Irish immigrants came looking for economic opportunities and they found Pittsburgh to be a welcoming place,” Madarasz said ... He is part of the revival of Irish music.

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Will you be eating shamrock for St Patrick's Day?

RTE 14 Mar 2024

Ireland's national holiday is an occasion when all sorts of Irish identities ... Botany and History of an Irish Myth ... His manuscript describes the diet of the Irish in broad and non-contextualised terms.

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North American Gaeltacht launches exhibit exploring history of Irish language in Canada

Irish Central 11 Mar 2024

Free exhibit features hand-illuminated manuscripts, poems, and stories, emphasizing the works of many Irish speakers in Canada dating back to 1563 ... .

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Column: Founders’ Day at The Huntington also a chance to look ahead

San Gabriel Valley Tribune 24 Feb 2024

Here was President Karen R ... An English and Irish literature scholar, Lawrence will not soon forget seeing an original manuscript with James Joyce’s handwritten notes, her own favorite among The Huntington’s 13-million-item collection ... .

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Antisemitic protest block Dublin library, home to ‘Book of Kells’

Cleveland Jewish News 12 Feb 2024

Anti-Israel protesters outside the Library of Trinity College Dublin, home to one of the most important manuscripts in the world, temporarily closed down the building as they called for the Irish university to boycott the Jewish state ... .

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Does the Iconic Plate on the Gundestrup Cauldron Depict an Ancient Poem?

Ancient Origins 10 Feb 2024

However, given that there was a gulf of one thousand years between the crafting of the Gundestrup Cauldron and the earliest known Irish manuscript containing the Tuan narrative, one would naturally ...

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Inside the new immmersive Book of Kells Experience

RTE 04 Feb 2024

The Book of Kells Experience is, in reality, a wonderful blend of technology and storytelling which rejuvenates the current exhibition and adds context as to why this medieval manuscript is one of the jewels in the crown of Irish heritage.

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What's on? Top 10 TV and streaming tips for Sunday

RTE 04 Feb 2024

. Pick of the Day. Blackshore, 9.30pm, RTÉ One. Streaming on RTÉ Player ... New or Returning Shows ... Along the way he traces the name in the Old Irish Manuscripts and from there learns that the name comes from an old Kingdom which no longer exists ... Sport ... .

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Gardening: Angela Jupe’s legacy in excellent hands and the top gardens for viewing snowdrops

The Irish Times 03 Feb 2024

Jupe had also begun writing a book about Irish snowdrops, the unfinished manuscript found among her personal papers after her death, alongside her substantial research on the subject.

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What do we know about the roots of the Imbolc spring festival?

RTE 31 Jan 2024

The Irish term for milking, ... The term Iomfhoilcc is found in a 17th century manuscript of Agallamh na Seanórach and may be seen to have taken on to refer to the Irish word folc – ‘to clean or wash’.

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"Death from want": the Famine Casebook of William Charles Waddell

RTE 31 Jan 2024

Image. Blundell Collection ... The transcribed volume(s) of Waddell’s casebooks will be published by the Irish Manuscripts Commission. This piece is part of the Great Irish Famine project coordinated by UCC and based on the Atlas of the Great Irish Famine.

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Uncovering the mysteries of The Book of Kells

CyprusMail 27 Jan 2024

... in the gospels by enlarging the first two letters of his name in the Greek alphabet, χ (Chi) and ρ (Rho) with a similar page in any other contemporary manuscript from the milieu of the Irish Church.

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The Traitors: the show’s Highland setting is befitting a game of deception

The Conversation 26 Jan 2024

He published these poems as purported translations under the pen-name Ossian, a reference to Oisín , a legendary poet from Irish mythology ... of any Gaelic manuscripts existing before the tenth century.

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