Friday, 19 September 2025

RTÉ Brainstorm piece on the Sacré-Coeur basilica in Paris

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Many visitors to Paris will have seen the Sacré-Coeur Basilica on the butte of Montmartre. Some will have traveled there and walked up the s...
Tuesday, 12 August 2025

An Irish Diary on Irish language enthusiast Liam Ó Briain (1888-1974)

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Can you learn a language from a primer or grammar book? Well apparently that is what Liam Ó Briain (1888-1974) did when he learned Irish by ...
Friday, 25 July 2025

Radio interview based on article on Irish restaurant in Paris - La Ferme Irlandsaise

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I recently did a short radio interview with MJ Clery on the programme 'Country Life' on Midlands 103 about the RTÉ Brainstorm  arti...
Wednesday, 23 July 2025

RTÉ Brainstorm piece on La Ferme Irlandaise Irish Restaurant in Paris

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La Ferme Irlandaise was an Irish restaurant in the heart of Paris. It served Irish food and the staff who were there were Irish. I have just...
Wednesday, 16 July 2025

Talk in Glasnevin Cemetery on Bastille Day about Liam Ó Briain

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Every year on 14 July (Bastille Day), the French embassy in Ireland organises a wreath laying ceremony to remember the Irish who fought in F...
Monday, 5 May 2025

An Irish Diary on Etiennette Beuque

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Etiennette Beuque (d. 1949) was fascinated with Ireland. The French writer became interested in Ireland and Irish history around the time of...
Friday, 28 March 2025

SOFEIR conference in University College Cork (UCC)

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The 2025 SOFEIR (Société Française d'Études Irlandaises / French Society of Irish Studies) conference was held in University College Co...