Gaza Action Ireland interview with writer Dervla Murphy

Mar 25, 2013

On Thursday 21st March, in The Teachers Club Dublin,  Gaza Action Ireland organised an interview with Dervla Murphy, Ireland’s pre-eminent travel writer on her latest book “A Month by the Sea. Encounters in Gaza”. This book gives a vivid picture and...

1913 Public Lecture

Feb 20, 2013

Folklore Society of Ireland/An Cumann Béaloideas Éireann public lecture, Tuesday, 26 February, 2013, Culture Box, 12 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 at 7.00 pm. ‘Who Dares to Wear the Red Hand Badge?: Some of the Songs, Poetry, Iconography and Folklore...

Congress highlights impact of Competition Law on artists

Jan 9, 2013

Congress General Secretary, David Begg, has written to Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton, highlighting his “serious concern” at the legal restrictions placed on the right to collective bargaining for certain workers. In his letter, sent on...

Limerick International Brigade Memorial Trust

Dec 11, 2012

76 years ago over 40,000 men came from all over the world to fight in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil war, in defence of a democratically elected Government. Of these about one third were killed and many others permanently injured. The vast...