A new Annie Lennox cover band

it took me a very long time to trace a decent image of it, not the least because I am a terrible photographer. But here it is, in April 2024, and also in the background of Bertie Ahern's resignation as Taoiseach in May 2007

Very happy with this cover for ‘Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955’, which features a detail from Evie Hone’s stained glass window 'Four Green Fields'. This window was originally shown at the New York's World Fair in 1939, but is now found in Government Buildings on Merrion Street

very grateful for this kind endorsement for 'Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955' by @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @qubhistory.bsky.social Prof Fearghal McGarry

From 1999

At the Seamus Heaney exhibition 'Listen Now Again' today

whatever the absolutely absurd claim that defamation is the preserve of the 'hard left and Sinn Féín' - another smear - the law remains as it is precisely because of her and her government's successive inability to change the law

it really is absurd how bad a candidate Heather Humphreys is, to the point that people claiming that anyone not voting for is a sectarian bigot

really think the fact Bank of Ireland invented both partition and time travel should come with some form of explanation

[in response to this]

in light of Belfast City Council's historic Irish language recognition, and the expected kickback about language polticization, I was thinking about the fact that long before Sinn Féin were in the council, letters like this would appear in the Belfast Newsletter in 1953

This was what 1916 was for