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Local history reviews: Spotlights on small-town life, from Doolin to Clogher
Edit The Irish Times 29 Apr 2016
The vibrant storytelling, song-and-dance tradition of Doolin is captured in Eddie Stack’s handsomely produced collection of essays Doolin. People, Place & Culture (Tintaun, €20). Music is to the fore with a fascinating chapter on the famed Russell brothers, Micho, Gussie and Pakie, and their unique style of playing ... Old Doolin, the author decides, has slipped away ... Banba’s Crown to World’s End, published by the Collins Press ... . ....
Frank O’Connor’s widow Harriet O’Donovan Sheehy dies, aged 92
Edit The Irish Times 18 Apr 2016
Harriet O’Donovan Sheehy, Frank O’Connor’s widow, has died, aged 92. It is understood that her funeral will be held later this week in Dalkey, Co Dublin. O’Donovan Sheehy was O’Connor’s second wife. They met when she was a student and he was a lecturer at Harvard University. Since O’Connor’s death in 1966, she worked tirelessly in her management of his estate ... The event takes place at Nenagh Arts, Banba Square, Nenagh from 7pm ... . ....
The Celtic god returned to his rightful place on Causeway coast
Edit Belfast Telegraph 19 Mar 2016
In terms of news stories last year, the theft of a statue of the Celtic seagod ranks as one of the most bizarre. Towards the end of January, a gang vandalised the tall steel and fibreglass statue of Manannan mac Lir ... Share Go To ... He is said to inhabit the offshore sandbanks between Inishtrahull Sound and the Magilligan waters ... From Banba's Crown to World's End by Paul Clements is published by the Collins Press (www.collinspress.ie)....
David Bowie: Irish writers pay tribute
Edit The Irish Times 12 Jan 2016
Julian Gough ... He was a human being, from the same London suburbs I came from, who had found a way to let the universe flow through him, as art ... without Bowie’s lyrics and interviews and the evidence of his own voracious and mostly autodidact attachment to books, I might never have found my way to the Banba secondhand store in Rathmines on the hunt for Jean Cocteau, Jean Genet, JG Ballard, all the Beats and especially William Burroughs....
Books to watch out for in 2016
Edit The Irish Times 02 Jan 2016
IRISH NOVELS ... Neil Jordan’s first novel since 2011, The Drowned Detective (Bloomsbury, February), features a PI searching in a decaying eastern European city for a child who has been missing for 20 years ... Finally, a heads-up for autumn ... HISTORY ... ESSAYS ... From Banba’s Crown to World’s End, Paul Clements drives the length of what’s fast becoming known as the Wawa, mingling travel writing, social history and nature (Collins Press, March) ... ....
A Walk for the Weekend: Ireland’s most northerly point at Malin Head
Edit The Irish Times 25 Nov 2015
Soon the gravel path comes to an end, and after a sign warning about the cliffs, a more natural meandering path continues to the extremity of Malin, a place called Banba’s Crown. The ancient Book of Invasions says that Banba, with three men and 150 women followers, was the first woman to invade Ireland, and her name has become one of the ancient names of the island, the others being Fódla and Éire....
Thailand won the 5th prize at the 57th International Al-Quran Reciter’s Assembly in Kuala Lumpur (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand)
Edit Public Technologies 09 Jul 2015
(Source. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand) Press Releases . Thailand won the 5th prize at the 57th International Al-Quran Reciter's Assembly in Kuala Lumpur ... Apart from the two Thai representatives, Mr ... Ms ... Prasert Banba from Thailand was selected to perform in a choir in front of distinguished guests at the Closing Ceremony, which included Sultan Muhammad V of Kelantan and the Prime Minister of Malaysia ... (noodl....
Dublin start-up creates a website of all of your products in five minutes
Edit The Irish Times 15 Jun 2015
Sailing around the Mediterranean on a yacht, Charles Bibby received a phone call from his college friend Mark Cummins. Cummins had studied engineering and computer science at Oxford University before going on to do a PhD in robotics and computer vision, and it was there he met Bibby ... “I rang Charles as I thought he might know someone to help me ... Unpredictable ... “One of the first big retailers to try Pointy was Banba Toymaster on Henry St....
Dublin start-up creates website of your products in five minutes
Edit The Irish Times 15 Jun 2015
Sailing around the Mediterranean on a yacht, Charles Bibby received a phone call from his college friend Mark Cummins. Cummins had studied engineering and computer science at Oxford University before going on to do a PhD in robotics and computer vision, and it was there he met Bibby ... “I rang Charles as I thought he might know someone to help me ... Unpredictable ... “One of the first big retailers to try Pointy was Banba Toymaster on Henry St....
Saothar Uí Chorcora ag spreagadh díospóireachta go fóill
Edit The Irish Times 31 Dec 2014
Tá 50 bliain ann ó fuair an fear ilghnéitheach sin Dónal Ó Corcora bás. Múinteoir scoile, scríbhneoir, léachtóir, polaiteoir agus fealsúnaí ab ea é. Thug sé faoi cheisteanna móra cultúrtha a linne ... Rugadh agus tógadh é i gCnoc Ghairdinéir, Corcaigh ... A Munster Twilight agus The Hounds of Banba (gearrscéalta); The Threshold of Quiet (úrscéal); The Labour Leader; The Yellow Bittern agus Resurrection (drámaí) ... BRIAN MAYE ....
ECIL gets US dollar 300,000 worth export order from Toshiba Corporation, Japan
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