Category: Ita’s World

An essay in booklet form by Dr. Catherine Morris accompanies an exhibition Discovery: Alice Milligan and the Irish Cultural Revival at the National Library of Ireland, Dublin. It features the life and work of an almost forgotten pioneer as cultural, political and social activist. A line from the essay reads: The year 1891 changed Alice Milligan’s destiny and transformed the history of Ireland. This turning point in her own life is absolutely bound up with the transformations in Irish…

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Laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize on 10 December 1998, John Hume (born 18 January 1937) said … ‘I want to see Ireland as an example to men and women everywhere of what can be achieved by living for ideals, rather than fighting for them, and by viewing each and every person as worthy of respect and honour. I want to see an Ireland of partnership where we wage war on want and poverty, where we reach out to…

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