Honoring Choctaw and Cherokee Irish Famine Aid, a new documentary, explores Native American contributions to Irish Famine relief in 1847. The film was launched at the “Honoring Indigenous Aid and Sharing Lands” event held at the National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, in County Roscommon on June 8th. Dr. Christine Kinealy (Ireland's Great Hunger Institute, Quinnipiac … [Read more...] about Forgotten Heroes of the Great Hunger
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Jailed teacher Enoch Burke loses defamation case over newspaper article
ENOCH BURKE has lost a defamation case he brought against the publishers of the Sunday Independent, Mediahaus Ireland. The teacher, who has been in Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison since September 2023 for contempt of court and was previously jailed for the same offence in September 2022, had taken the action over an article published in October 2022. The report claimed Burke had been … [Read more...] about Jailed teacher Enoch Burke loses defamation case over newspaper article
Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s shipwrecked Quest found on seafloor
THE wreck of the ship on which Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton died has been located on the seafloor off the coast of Newfoundland in Canada. A team from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) has located the wreck of Quest, the last ship which Shackleton commanded, in the Labrador Sea. The explorer, who was born in February 1874 in Co. Kildare, and moved to London … [Read more...] about Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s shipwrecked Quest found on seafloor
Ireland welcomes 3.5m passengers in just one month as summer season ‘well and truly underway’
MORE than 3.5million passengers flew in and out of Ireland last month as the summer season got off to a flying start. The figures issued by the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) for Ireland’s two busiest airports show a total of 3.5 million passengers flew to and from Cork and Dublin in May. Cork Airport welcomed 282,000 passengers in May, DAA’s figures show, while Dublin Airport … [Read more...] about Ireland welcomes 3.5m passengers in just one month as summer season ‘well and truly underway’
Hundreds of mother and baby home survivors reunited with relatives after accessing birth records
HUNDREDS of survivors of Ireland’s brutal mother and baby homes have been reunited with family members under legislation allowing adoptees to access their birth records. New Information and Tracing services became available in Ireland in October 2022 under the Adoption Authority of Ireland and Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. They followed the implementation of the Birth … [Read more...] about Hundreds of mother and baby home survivors reunited with relatives after accessing birth records