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Simon O'Dwyer has been studying and reconstructing the pre historic musical instruments of Ireland since the late eighties after an experimental reconstruction of a bronze age horn turned out to be a huge success. After years of intense study and research he has now become one of the leading authorities on prehistoric Irish music. Besides making replicas of some of Irelands most enigmatic

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It's a sad fact, to which I can attest first hand, that there is a widely held perception that the language revival movement is elitist and exclusive. I can count myself firmly among the ranks of the under-confident learner, unsure of my own fluency and reluctant to look like a gobshite in front of fluent speakers, stuttering and taking too long hunting for vocabulary or the correct grammar in

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Among the most familiar symbols of Ireland, besides the harp or shamrock, it is reasonable enough to think of the Celtic Cross as quintessential. To many it brings to mind the early Christian Ireland with her saints and holy hermits finding the divine in nature as did their pagan forbears before them, a time of transition where the new faith, at war with a long held paganism, was being coloured

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My father’s ‘rebel act’ in 1975 to abandon English as a 'language to sell pigs in', as well as to write poetry in, still has a legendary feel to it today: I have made my choice And leave with little weeping I have come with meagre voice To court the language of my people.Almost as legendary was his fall from rebel grace to once again pen in English as well as Irish. Many looked upon this as a

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During recent construction works on the M3 motorway at Lismullin, Co. Meath, archaeologists have uncovered an astonishing find of a type that must, because of the rarity of similar features in Ireland, be considered a national monument and be treated under the appropriate legislation. The feature is a henge structure; a circular enclosure (80 m in diameter) with a smaller inner central enclosure

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