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Walking the West Cork railway

WCP Staff June, 2025

I was hesitant to write about the West Cork railway. There are many local experts and train enthusiasts who know so much more than me about this topic and it has appeared in journals, books and newspapers, so I don’t feel I can add anything radically new to what has been […]

Wild food in ancient Ireland

Eugene Daly June, 2025

A good deal of the countryside of ancient Ireland was covered with trees and scrub. Hazel was one of the most important providers of food. The nutritious nut (cnó) of this tree can be kept for up to a year and must, therefore, have been a valuable winter food. It […]

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The day the world changed – Hiroshima

Kieran Doyle May, 2025

Standing at the epicentre of where the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated by the USA on August 6, 1945, is a surreal experience. Hiroshima, a modern and somewhat serene city, is less hectic and less claustrophobic than other Japanese cities, but that is to be expected given that the […]

The Wandering Irish

Eugene Daly May, 2025

The Irish have always been notable travellers. A continental scholar, Walafrid Strabo, who lived over a thousand years ago, remarked that the Irish of his time were so given to wandering abroad that it was second nature to them. He had seen them coming by the shipload, monks and craftsmen […]

The 1932 Eucharist Congress– a time when Ireland was holy

Kieran Doyle April, 2025

Myself and my friends have this phrase we use on the occasions we meet up and start reminiscing on our youth. We tend to say, we grew up in an era with one foot in ‘old’ Ireland and another in the ‘new’. We were from a generation where childhood was more […]

Trying to navigate our way through a technological and more polarised world

Kieran Doyle March, 2025

After Trump won the USA presidential election, I promised myself that I wasn’t going to allow my 2025 articles become dominated by his political journey. However, he unleashes so much global negativity on a daily basis, that’s its difficult to navigate from the political chaos he is causing internally and […]

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