Elaine Agnew’s hopes still afloat for Paper Boat opera
Composer’s Galway 2020 community project postponed twice during pandemic
The story of Jack-o’-lantern: ‘If you knew the sufferings of that forsaken craythur’
How Irish immigrants brought the Halloween tradition of carving pumpkins (originally turnips) to America
How tales of the headless horseman came from Celtic mythology
The Dullahan was a malevolent harbinger who demanded blood sacrifice in the form of decapitation
The Irish-Jewish music stars of the Tin Pan Alley years
A look at some of the fascinating personalities and partnerships who helped to write the Great American Song Book
The story of Irish astronomer Rose O’Halloran
The Tipperary woman, who emigrated to the US, is credited as being the first to see a giant sunspot emerge on the sun’s limb
Mary Swanzy, one of Ireland’s leading modernist painters
Artist achieved success in her lifetime only to be relatively forgotten in death
Daisy Bates, the Edwardian Irishwoman in the Australian outback
Journalist spent four decades living among Aborigines, writing hundreds of articles
Was this Irish spy the inspiration for James Bond’s ‘M’?
William Melville created the blueprint for the popular culture spy we know today
The Irish woman who became Canada’s first major poet
Isabella Valancy Crawford was one of Canada’s first writers to make a living as a freelancer
Monica de Wichfeld: Chanel designer, gun-runner and rebel to the end
Extraordinary Emigrants: Fermanagh woman gathered intelligence on the Nazis for Britain
Irishwoman Ann Glover, the last woman hanged for witchcraft in Boston
Extraordinary Emigrants: Ann became a symbol of the wrongs perpetrated against the dispossessed
Has your family an interesting Irish emigration story to share?
Emigration museum is collecting stories for EU project on how migration enriches the world
Rising poem: Patrick Pearse, A Manifesto by Paul Muldoon
A special commission for the centenary of the 1916 Rising
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