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Telling Duntocher's story
IN 1816, landscape painter John Knox, travelled the 10 miles or so from Glasgow, to paint the Clyde from Faifley and Duntocher—two small settlements which were part of the parish of Old Kilpatrick. It was an early autumn scene, a rolling wooded hillside with a textile mill in the distance. It was pleasant, green and largely unoccupied. By the mid 1840s it was an entirely different picture.
Florence Boyle
Dec 2, 20259 min read
Journalism is actually the first rough draft of history
IT IS perhaps the human condition to take for granted your good fortune. However, I have no excuse for failing to regularly remind myself that for the past 30 years, I’ve been able to call Ireland’s best-kept secret my homeplace.
Phil MacGiolla Bháin
Jun 25, 20253 min read
Never mind the ballots, here’s the analysis
IRELAND has voted for more of the same. And why wouldn't it?
Stephen Colbert
Feb 19, 20256 min read
Storm Éowyn hit Ireland hard, is a political storm brewing too?
FULL disclosure, I don’t always pay much attention to the folks at Met Éireann. At this stage, I’m a bit of an expert on what the local...
Phil MacGiolla Bháin
Feb 19, 20253 min read
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