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#Heritage
# heritage - Wednesday 12 September, 2018
Bullets, ballots and a flu pandemic: Life in Ireland was very turbulent 100 years ago
The National Library of Ireland has launched its latest exhibition, which will run until May 2019.
# heritage - Wednesday 22 August, 2018
Potato stealing and pig theft: The stories of Irish convicts sent to Australia now available online
Many of the people sent from Ireland to Australia for petty crimes “generally weren’t coming home”.
# heritage - Sunday 19 August, 2018
Your summer in Ireland: 5 must-see sites in Cork City
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Your summer in Ireland: 5 must-see sites in Galway city
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# heritage - Saturday 18 August, 2018
Your summer in Ireland: 5 must-see sites in Dublin city
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'Dry stone walls are part of our history and culture but there are plans to replace them with fencing'
The first proposed stretch of wall to be replaced is along the N67 between Kinvara and Ballindereen, Co. Galway.
# heritage - Friday 17 August, 2018
Your summer in Ireland: 5 must-see sites in Wicklow
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Your summer in Ireland: 5 must-see sites in Wexford
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# heritage - Thursday 16 August, 2018
Your summer in Ireland: 5 must-see sites in Waterford
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Your summer in Ireland: 5 must-see sites in Westmeath
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# heritage - Wednesday 15 August, 2018
Your summer in Ireland: 5 must-see sites in Tipperary
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Your summer in Ireland: 5 must-see sites in South Dublin
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# heritage - Tuesday 14 August, 2018
Your summer in Ireland: 5 must-see sites in Sligo
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Your summer in Ireland: 5 must-see sites in Roscommon
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# heritage - Monday 13 August, 2018
Your summer in Ireland: 5 must-see sites in Offaly
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Your summer in Ireland: 5 must-see sites in Meath
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# heritage - Sunday 12 August, 2018
Your summer in Ireland: 5 must-see sites in Mayo
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# heritage - Saturday 11 August, 2018
Your summer in Ireland: 5 must-see sites in Louth
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# heritage - Friday 10 August, 2018
Your summer in Ireland: 5 must-see sites in Monaghan
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Your summer in Ireland: 5 must-see sites in Leitrim
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# heritage - Thursday 9 August, 2018
Your summer in Ireland: 5 must-see sites in Laois
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# heritage - Wednesday 8 August, 2018
Your summer in Ireland: 5 must-see sites in Kildare
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# heritage - Monday 6 August, 2018
Your summer in Ireland: 5 must-see sites in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown
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# heritage - Sunday 5 August, 2018
Your summer in Ireland: 5 must-see sites in Cork
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Your summer in Ireland: 5 must-see sites in Clare
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# heritage - Saturday 4 August, 2018
Archaeological discoveries are being made by the dozen this summer - but what happens next?
The dry weather has revealed previously undiscovered site around the county.
# heritage - Monday 11 June, 2018
'There is an urgency to this': The government wants to double Ireland's 'global footprint' by 2025
The government launched its Global Ireland plan today.
# heritage - Saturday 5 May, 2018
The past isn't the past, it's not even over: We can't discard Junior Cert History
Author John Connell agrees with President Higgins that making the study of History optional at junior cycle is to lose a part of our national identity.
# heritage - Tuesday 10 April, 2018
Government to invest an "unprecedented" €1.2 billion in culture, language and heritage
The move is as part of the Ireland 2040 plan.
# heritage - Sunday 18 March, 2018
Walk along Ireland's answer to the Camino this Easter
The penitential trail paths aren’t just for those who are religious.
# heritage - Saturday 20 January, 2018
Three 1830s houses demolished at Dublin's Five Lamps to make way for social housing
The State conservation group had suggested the houses be made protected structures, but an order to demolish them to build housing for senior citizens had already been made.
# heritage - Saturday 13 January, 2018
Macron wants the French baguette to become a Unesco-listed symbol
Irish uilleann piping was granted the same status last year.
# heritage - Wednesday 10 January, 2018
Heritage Department has ‘no intention’ of investigating mysterious Loughcrew ‘find’
A group of workers posted a video on Facebook purporting to have found something at the ancient site.
# heritage - Sunday 7 January, 2018
Killarney National Park 'significantly and rapidly deteriorating' due to rhododendron
The invasive plant is at the centre of a row between a voluntary body and a government department.
# heritage - Thursday 7 December, 2017
'Today is a global milestone': Uilleann pipes get international recognition
President Michael D Higgins is among those to welcome the news
# heritage - Saturday 18 November, 2017
Great tragedy of 500 lives lost in sunken mail boat RMS Leinster retold
Over 500 people were killed when the boat sank, just a month before the First World War ended.
# heritage - Sunday 12 November, 2017
The artist who captured Ireland in the 1800s with thousands of watercolours
George Victor du Noyer travelled around Ireland drawing various features, accompanied by his spaniel Mr Buff.
# heritage - Monday 9 October, 2017
Irish and mixed heritage: 'I'm a proud Irish woman and that identity is part of who I am'
#IamIrish exhibition opens this month to explore issues around identity and culture with Irish people of mixed heritage.
# heritage - Saturday 30 September, 2017
A century after the attack, fatal U-boat bombing commemorated in Dublin
Of the 36 people who died in the bombings, only four bodies were found.
# heritage - Sunday 20 August, 2017
Fancy yourself as a bit of an Indiana Jones? Now you can experience what he did on his day job
The public is being asked to help at archaeological dig at Glendalough.
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It’s likely to take some time, however, before results are known with information indicating that counting will continue until midnight tonight.
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Today we’re asking: Will you stay up to watch European and local election results?
Poll Results:
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From the Garden: The Hungry Gap must be filled and this kale and gnocchi broth will do the job
By Michael Kelly
Doctors feared I’d never walk again but resilience played a part in my recovery
By Billy Hedderman
Following a freak surfing accident, I was paralysed from the neck down, writes Billy Hedderman.
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