We Are Beirt | Aoife B. Burke & Miriam Burke
Post by CM We, the people of Ireland, have had no fewer than five whole beautifully sunny days in a row, at the time of writing. It’s enough for anyone to root out their summer holiday clothes (i.e. those items that usually only see the light of day in warmer climes) down from the attic and […]
MorePost by TM Like most children (I think) when I was a little girl I didn’t really notice how old people looked. Anyone my parents’ age and older were just well, old in my book and how they looked or dressed or presented themselves didn’t bother me. While I always admired my grandmother and knew […]
MorePost by T.M. On March 29th 2004 (which will be a whole decade ago this Saturday) something happened that changed Irish society forever. The government introduced a ban on smoking in the workplace – meaning all places of work – although most people remember that date as when all cigarettes, cigars and pieces of apparatus that can […]
MorePost by T.M. Last December I was in a busy Euro Shop stocking up on God knows what when I overheard a panicked woman in actual tears fretting over how on earth she was going to kit her child out in a shepherd’s outfit for his school’s nativity play. All of the nativity costumes had […]
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