


Week 3 round up for Reading Ireland Month!

Announcing Reading Ireland Month 2016!
Father Ted – Ireland’s Greatest TV Show
Christmas Eve, 1996. I’m at 9pm Mass with my Mum, Dad and sister and hoping (as usual) that the priest doesn’t preach for too long. Sermon time comes and the priest says, ‘Now, I won’t be keeping you too long this evening’. An audible sigh of relief spreads across the congregation. The priest continues, ‘Sure,…
Ireland Month – it’s nearly here!
It’s hard to believe it, but March is nearly here and that can only mean one thing, it’s time for some craic! As of next Sunday, it will be Reading Ireland Month (or The Begorrathon, if you are so inclined!) and we will kick off a month long celebration of Irish books and culture. I’ve…

Announcing Reading Ireland Month!
The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination. George Bernard Shaw March is coming, and that means St. Patrick’s Day, but there’s much, much more to Irish culture than shamrocks (which, by the by, are NOT four-leaf clovers) and driving snakes out of the country (this never actually happened either). St Patrick wasn’t…
