history – The Circular

A tradition of Turks: Turkish Coffee

April 22, 2019

184

Every day, 2.25 billion cups of coffee are being consumed worldwide. Coffee is also one of the most traded products around the world and is developing more and more every day. For this reason,Turkish coffee h...

Audio: What Happened to the Baths? The Story of the Dun Laoghaire & Blackrock Baths

Nathan Griffin

April 15, 2019

Culture, History

426

This radio documentary delves back into the memories of two local residents to give listeners an idea of what these two bygone Bath facilities were like in their heyday. https://soundcloud.com/nathan-griff...

Appreciating the landscape around us: The Curragh of Kildare

Kim Carroll

April 8, 2019

Environment, History, Slider

491

The Curragh is an area in County Kildare containing a flat open plain field, stretching over 2,000 hectares of common land. Although the area is most commonly known by outsiders for its large horse-racing comm...

How HOLLYWOOD became HOLLYWOOD

Barnett Gomez

April 3, 2019

History, Slider

262

Hollywood – the ever-famous name which everyone knows and has heard of. The “movie central” of the world which every aspiring actor and actress wants to work in. Though we all know of and have heard of Hollywo...

Mughal Empire brought to the 21st Century

Nitanti Alur

March 24, 2019

Books, Slider

417

It takes a lot of skill to put pen to paper; a skill that not many people experience the joy of having. Writing is a form of art that brings like-minded people together, it’s art that gives those who don’t fit...

An Afternoon with 103 year old: Mrs. Ann Byrne

Hayley Doherty

March 20, 2019

Culture

369

Mrs. Byrne has lived a fascinating life. At the age of 103, she has experienced life during WWII in London, travelled all over the world, was recalled the first person in Ireland to own a tape recorder and to ...

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