Language | Sorry for your Troubles : Hiberno-English and a history of euphemism.
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
The recent burkini ban in France, and today’s announcement by Angela Merkel to support a partial ban on the burqa…
Opinion | Elite origin of the Irish language revival is hindering learning
On the 25 November 1892, when Douglas Hyde – he who later became the first president of the Irish Republic…
Opinion | Preparing Ireland for climate change mitigation
There is a debate missing from Irish politics. Despite the now overwhelming scientific consensus about the causes and implications of…
Ernest Walton | The Irish nobel laureate who split the atom
In July 2012, a little over 60 years after the first successful atom smashing, CERN – the European Organization for…