One hundred years ago this week, on March 12, 1925, a dark chapter of Irish history was pronounced closed. Just off what is ...

The air is thick with dust as children file through the gates of Sancta Maria Primary School. The modern building stands in stark contrast to the surrounding maze of corrugated iron structures that ...

St. Claire’s Conference of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul: Messages for the St. Vincent de Paul should be sent to St. Clair’s Centre, Ballymorris, Killarney Road, Bray call 01-2745325 and leave ...

House of Guinness, from Stevie Knight, follows the life of Benjamin Guinness’ family through Dublin and New York ... home to a market and a number of slums in the mid-to-late 1800s.

and Dublin was at high risk of an outbreak due to its slums and tenements and poor sanitation - all of which provided an ideal breeding ground for bubonic plague. The Guardian newspaper in ...

A team of Specsavers volunteers recently travelled to Kolkata, in India, to work in aid of The Hope Foundation. The charity works with street-dwelling and slum-connected children in Kolkata, providing ...

Among the first of these was the “contraceptive train” which, as Lynda Walker tells us in her thoughtful and fiery introduction, saw many women catching the train from Dublin to Belfast ... justice to ...

Irish-born priest on mission from Boston was decades-long champion of community solidarityby Tim KirkSpecial to ...