Tánaiste Micheál Martin has announced this year’s recipients of the Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad, with Magdalene Laundry baby Maria Doyle-Cuche among the 13 recipients.
IrishCentral Contributor Patricia Killeen reflects on ushering in the new year at a Cercle Littéraire Irlandais event in the Centre Culturel Irlandais (CCI) in Paris, France.
It shocked, it stunned, it was even burned and banned in America and Britain. Now the epic novel "Ulysses" by literature's original bad boy James Joyce is considered one of the greatest novels of the…