Of all the Christian festivals, Christmas was considered by the Irish people as the most important. The mid-winter solstice (December 21) is a turning point in the year, with the sun weakening day after day and then miraculously recovering. It was a good time for a feast and mid-winter festivals […]
The Museum of Song, an uplifting song collecting project, co-created by artists Tess Leak and Sharon Whooley, has now been expanded to include members of the Ukrainian community in West Cork. Mary O’Brien finds out more about this collaborative project. A Museum of Song Ireland and Ukraine, which debuted at […]
With the world watching on in horror as Iran hands out death sentences to anti-government protestors, the Iran of today under supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei, where women are treated as second-class citizens, forced to wear the hijab (Islamic head covering) in public and punished by Morality Police for non-compliance, is a […]
