When Queens Collide: Grace O’Malley and the Meeting of 1593
What is a leader? Many have speculated on the concept for years, writing books and giving talks on the subject to identify the traits and habits to become one: things…
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Maeve Ryan
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Maeve Ryan is a writer and performer from Chicago, Illinois. A recent grad of New York University, she was the sole recipient of the Bevya Rosten Memorial Award for writing. She is the co-founder of The Lighthouse Series at SoHo Playhouse, an Off-Broadway competition for emerging, young artists that launched in the spring of 2022. She writes internationally; and is currently working on her first book about the mental fortitude trends in boxing.
Tina Claffey: The Woman Who Found Color in a Colorless World
Artists have a way of sharing the unspoken. Each have their own medium that they communicate with, and within that, they allow us to understand something that was previously misunderstood.…
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Brian Boru and the End of the Viking Age?
For centuries, Ireland has told the stories of the great High King Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf: a battle that’s accredited as the end of the Viking’s reign…
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St. Columba, The Monks, and The Making of the Western World
On June 9th, we celebrate the feast day of St. Columba, the patron saint of Derry, floods, books, poets, Ireland and Scotland. The saint is associated with a series of…
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The English Invitation: King Diarmaid and Strongbow
A riveting account of how King Diarmaid extended an invitation to the English to come to his aid in his homeland, thus changing Irish history forever.
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Where Mary Kenny Goes, God Never Feels Far Behind
Let me start with a confession. As a kid born in the 90’s, I have fallen quite out of touch with my own faith as many of my peers have;…
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The Vikings | Why They Came and How They Stayed
The great Viking love affair with Ireland would begin in 795 AD, and go on for 333 years. These times would see some of the darkest moments in Irish history:…
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Queen Medb, Fact or Fiction, and Why it Matters
It is not unusual to fall victim to the idea that women did not hold roles of power in history, or that they did not hold equal positions to that…
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