Sunday 30 August 2020

Tuesday 25 August 2020

Kilkenny's Big Phil confirms golf trip to Limerick as he publishes details of his movements since returning to Ireland - Kilkenny Now - Your City. Your County. Your News. Now

Kilkenny's Big Phil confirms golf trip to Limerick as he publishes details of his movements since returning to Ireland - Kilkenny Now - Your City. Your County. Your News. Now: The EU Trade Commissioner, Kilkenny’s Phil Hogan, has published a timeline of his movements when he arrived in Ireland from Brussels on July 31. The timeline includes details of a trip to Adare in county Limerick on August 13 to play golf. Mr Hogan released the timeline on social media after he provided around 20 pages …

Saturday 22 August 2020

Kilkenny All Time Greats - Profile: Hubert Butler 1900-1991

 Kilkenny All Time Greats - Profile: Hubert Butler: Born at Maiden Hall outside the village of Bennettsbridge, Butler was a man of many talents. We remember him as a human rights campaigner, activist, writer, fluent Russian-speaker who translated the writings of Chekov and was a co-reviver of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society. Butler travelled thro...

The Minority Voice

Excellent study of Hubert Butler 1900-1991 by Robert Benjamin Tobin - The Minority Voice: 'How do such people, with brilliant members and dull ones, fare when they pass from being a dominant minority to being a powerless one?' So asked the Kilkenny man-of-letters Hubert Butler (1900-1991) when considering the fate of Southern Protestants after Irish Independence. As both a product and critic of this culture, Butler posed the question repeatedly, refusing to accept as inevitable the marginalization of his community within the newly established state.

John Banville on Hubert Butler's The Eggman and the Fairies

[Wikipedia] Hubert Butler

Monday 3 August 2020

Which UK Prime Minister are you? Quiz

Which Prime Minister are you? Quiz: There have been 55 Prime Ministers since the office was first created under Walpole almost 300 years ago. Some have been well regarded and well remembered by history. Some of them have a place in infamy. Others are almost forgotten today. We have scientifically* created this quiz to determine which Prime Minister best fits your views, background, and tastes. Some former Prime Ministers, like Churchill or Attlee, will always be remembered for their vital work during and in the aftermath of the Second Wo...