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Russian Premier Vladimir Putin meets ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré –

06/16/2011

Photo copyright ActionPress/Virot Geneva, 15 June 2011 – ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré met with Mr Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation during a historic visit to UN Headquarters in Geneva, where they discussed global access to the benefits of information and communication technologies (ICT). Russia has long been a supporter of ITU and was one of its founding members nearly 150 years ago. Prime Minister Putin reaffirmed his support and that of the Russian Federation to ITU…

Nora Barnacle: Wife and inspiration to James Joyce

06/15/2011

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An inspiring book by Marian Broderick titled Wild Irish Women: Extraordinary Lives from History is a series of lively portraits telling the stories of seventy-five women most of them Irish-born and bred. The Irishness of the women is variously and liberally mixed and diluted with the cultures of Europe, the USA, South America, the Caribbean, Japan and Australasia. The book is a historical collection about fascinating women in political, religious, social and cultural contexts that helped to shape Eire….