Myles na gCopaleen: Deich mBréag

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ONLINE TALK Is caint í seo ina dtugtar aghaidh ar chuid de na míthuiscintí agus ráflaí is mó faoi shaol agus faoi shaothar Bhriain Uí Nualláin. Cérbh é? Cárbh as dó? An raibh an ghráin ar an nGaeilge? Ar pósadh sa Ghearmáin é? Ar throid sé i gcoinne na Naitsithe? Is Ollamh le Gaeilge in...

Learn with Hearn: Lafcadio Hearn’s Japan from Enchantment to Education

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Lafcadio Hearn enjoys great acclaim as a literary genius who brought the folklore of Japan to Westerners. Yet behind the novelist lived Hearn the teacher. As a translator, he saw learning as the source of intercultural understanding. As a mediator, Hearn advocated a cosmopolitan outlook on Japan. Caring about cultural and social tensions, he sought...

“No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs”: The Irish in Multicultural Britain

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ONLINE TALK Writer and historian Kieran Connell sheds new light on the experiences of the hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants who made lives for themselves in Britain over the second half of the twentieth century. Drawing on his new book, Multicultural Britain: A People’s History, Connell explores the discrimination the Irish experienced and how...