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Language | Sorry for your Troubles : Hiberno-English and a history of euphemism.

Gerard Lynch/March 15, 2018April 19, 2018

In which the author gives out* about the Hiberno-English tendency towards euphemism *tabhairt amach (lit) to give out (fig) to complain about…

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Insight | How the Irish government began its anti-traveller movement

Rob Barnes/December 6, 2016March 16, 2018

The recent burkini ban in France, and today’s announcement by Angela Merkel to support a partial ban on the burqa…

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Opinion | Elite origin of the Irish language revival is hindering learning

Ciarán Weafer/November 7, 2016March 15, 2018

On the 25 November 1892, when Douglas Hyde – he who later became the first president of the Irish Republic…

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Opinion | Preparing Ireland for climate change mitigation

Michael Keary/October 19, 2016February 2, 2018

There is a debate missing from Irish politics. Despite the now overwhelming scientific consensus about the causes and implications of…

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Ernest Walton | The Irish nobel laureate who split the atom

Alan Hally/October 5, 2016February 2, 2018

In July 2012, a little over 60 years after the first successful atom smashing, CERN – the European Organization for…

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