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Ireland's compensation for symphysiotomy victims ending
Legal experts condemn compensation scheme for women who were crippled by Irish doctors during childbirth.
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A St. Patrick's Poem On Shamrocks And Stereotypes
Poet and Irish expatriate Frank Delaney has enjoyed success as a BBC host, Man Booker Prize judge and author of the best-selling novel, Ireland. To honor St. Patrick's Day, Delaney shares with Weekend Edition his original poem, Drowning the Shamrock.
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1880s Irish farmers fought evictors with boiling water and bees
The Land War in Ireland left many poor tenant farmers facing eviction from their homes. But not without a fight.
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Australians, it's still safe to go to Ireland despite what you've been told
"They make it sound like a war zone."
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Blue plaque for Ulsterman behind the dollar sign
The Ulster History Circle has unveiled its 200th plaque which remembers Oliver Pollock, a local man credited for creating the dollar sign.
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How the Myth of the "Irish slaves" Became a Favorite Meme of Racists Online
Propaganda is cheap to produce on the web. And a purposeful lie in an age of "viral content" not only can race around the world in a day but resurface time and time again with surprising resiliency.
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The Best Climbing Along Ireland's Craggy Coast
Outside profiled County Donegal in the April 2016 issue and called it the 'end of the rainbow' for adventure seekers.
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Ireland recognizes gift from Choctaw Nation during potato famine
MAR 23, 2015 - Scheduled to be unveiled in May in Bailic Park in Middleton, Cork County, Ireland.,
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The Easter Rising 100 years on: how the Irish revolution fired up American politics
Irish immigrants and their descendants played a leading part in the Easter Rising of 1916 and Ireland's subsequent rebellion. But the inspiration worked in the other direction as well.
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ProdiJIG - The Revolution - Cork Opera House 2016
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The Irishman who faked his own kidnapping
When a bedraggled man appeared at the side of a road in Ireland claiming he had been abducted, a bizarre tale of fraud and a fake kidnapping started to unfold. A new documentary, The Many Lives of Kevin McGeever, made by Brian Carroll tells the story. Kevin McGeever's drenched, emaciated figure lay at the edge of a country road - he wasn't wearing any shoes and a plastic sheet covered his skeletal frame.
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Man finds 22-pound chunk of butter estimated to be more than 2,000 years old in Irish bog
Finding buried treasure is a dream as old as stories themselves. Treasure chests overflowing with gold doubloons, shiny lamps containing genies, gargantuan lumps of thousand-year-old butter. Okay, maybe most don't dream of unearthing enormous chunks of butter, but that's exactly what Jack Conway discovered in the Emlagh bog in County Meath, Ireland, at the beginning of June, Atlas Obscura reported. Conway is a turf cutter, meaning he harvests "turf" or peat - it's similar to moss - from a bog to later burn...
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Irish goes West | Village Magazine
'The Left-Handed Gun' is not a film that many people will have heard of, let alone seen. It’s a 1958 Western, starring Paul Newman and directed by Arthur Penn.
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Drone delivers abortion pills to Northern Irish women
Pro-choice activists have delivered abortion pills to women in Northern Ireland using a drone. The stunt aimed to highlight the strict laws around terminations on both sides of the Irish border. Courtney Robinson, 18, from Belfast, who took the tablets, said: “We are here to say we are going to defy the law in helping women obtain these pills and we are going to work to make the law unworkable and stand in solidarity with all women who want to have an abortion and have the right to do so in Northern Ireland.”
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Brexit vote paves way for federal union to save UK, says all-party group
Exclusive Proposed constitutional reform would give each nation and region of the UK full sovereignty over its own affairs
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Virgin Media agrees deal to buy UTV Ireland
Virgin Media has announced it has agreed a deal to acquire UTV Ireland from ITV for €10m.
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No return of hard border, says Taoiseach
A meeting between the Taoiseach and British Prime Minister Theresa May has ended with Enda Kenny stating they have both agreed that there will be no return of a hard border.
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American student finds 12th century Irish brooch on a Galway Beach
McKenna McFadden was walking on the shore of Oney Island when she stumbled across a treasure from the 12th century.
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Patrick Hickey: Head of Irish Olympic committee 'arrested in Rio'
The head of the Irish and European Olympic committees, Patrick Hickey, is arrested in Rio over illegal ticket sales, Brazil media report.
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Apple facing record bill for Irish tax
Apple could be ordered to pay billions of euros in back taxes in the Republic of Ireland under a European Union ruling expected on Tuesday.
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