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Same-sex marriage rally brings 20,000 onto streets of Belfast
An estimated 20,000 people have turned out in Belfast city centre to call for the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland.
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An Irish Sunset
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The Evening's Dying Light
In a small town in the west of Ireland
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Irish student drowns in Croatia
Eamon had travelled to a music festival in the city as part of a large group of young people from Galway including his twin brother Liam.
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Ireland passes law allowing trans people to choose their legal gender
Gender recognition bill will eliminate need for medical or state intervention and comes months after the country voted for same-sex marriage
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New political party of high-profile TDs called 'Social Democrats'
The social democratic Labour Party in Ireland has some new competitors with a new party called the Social Democrats.
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Ireland and Greece
Ireland is often regarded as a success story for Eurozone austerity, compared to the total failure of Greece. That can lead to nonsense like this: instead of whingeing, the Greeks should buckle under and get on with it as Ireland has done. An alternative narrative is to explain the different experience of the two economies by looking at structural factors, as in these two examples.
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Just a door : )
I think it's simply striking
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Ireland, You May Now Eat Oatmeal: How 6000 Obsolete Laws Got Struck Down
Ireland has just repealed thousands of antiquated laws, including talking smack about Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII. They might seem funny now, but these pieces of legislation were deadly serious at the time—tools fashioned specifically for the intimidation and coercion of a populace.
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Ibrahim Halawa - the inside story
Weekend Read: Ibrahim Halawa travelled with his sisters to Egypt, where he was caught up in political protests and arrested. Efforts to get him released have failed, and two years on his family blame the Irish State for his continued imprisonment. Are they right?
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Beyond Revisionism: reassessing the Great Irish Famine
Revisionism gained prominence, in the hearts and minds challenging mythology became an important ideological preoccupation of new generation of historians. By Christine Kinealy. (Winter 1995)
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Elvis Costello - Pump it up
Fantastico!
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Elvis Costello & The Attractions - My Aim Is True
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Where Yeats spoke with ghosts
Alice Miller travels through Ireland, from Sligo to Dublin, following in the footsteps of one of the greatest poets of the 20th Century.
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Jah Wobble & Sinead O'Connor - Visions of You
From Sinead O'Connor's "Collaborations"
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Choctaws helped starving Irish in 1847 – this act shaped tribal culture | Choctaw Nation
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The Cranberries - Zombie
Music video by The Cranberries performing Zombie from the album 'No Need to Argue'. It was written during the Cranberries' English Tour in 1993, in memory of two boys, Jonathan Ball and Tim Parry, who were killed in an IRA bombing in Warrington.
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UTV Media announces fall in profits
UTV Media plc has reported a sharp fall in pre-tax profits to £1m in the first half of the year, following the launch of UTV Ireland.
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A Storm Knocked This Tree Over, And A Skeleton Was Found Hanging From The Roots
The inhabitants of Collooney – a small town in Ireland – made a shocking discovery after a violent storm ripped through the area. A 200-year-old beech tree toppled over, revealing what could be a medieval murder scene. While it’s not uncommon for storms to uproot trees, it’s not every day one finds a skeleton dangling from the tree’s roots. In a bizarre and grisly twist, only the upper portion of the skeleton was attached to the tree roots, with the legs buried in a grave below.
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The college dropout who cooks for the stars
Cathal Armstrong was 19 when he opened his first restaurant with his father in Dublin. "It was a disaster from the beginning," he recalls. "We never had a business licence, we never had a health permit - who knew you needed such a thing? The walls started closing in and we began running out of money.
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