World War German military buried in the heart of the Wicklow Mountains
The German Military Cemetery in the small Wicklow village of Glencree contains the graves of 134 German soldiers and civilians who lost their lives on Irish soil during the First and Second World War and played an important role in Ireland and Germany s post-war relationship.
Boo George: I m talking about cowshite one day, the next flying to photograph Keira Knightley
He s photographed everyone from Kim Kardashian for the cover of Elle to Victoria Beckham. Internationally acclaimed fashion photographer, Boo George, speaks to us from his West Cork lockdown base
Boo George, the Wicklow photographer who shot Kim Kardashian s latest cover
Sat, 17 Apr, 2021 - 08:00
Carina McNally I love West Cork. I idolise the place; when I fly from London to JFK or back, I’m always looking down for a landmark; if I see Bere Island, I’m laughing. Or, I say to myself ‘there’s Kenmare bay’ or ‘there’s John Dunne’s house. Those are the little things that I love.
It was Yeats who had encouraged him to go west in search of writing material among the Irish-speaking areas that were even then dwindling. As well as the Aran Islands, Synge spent valuable time in West Kerry â where the fictional Christy Mahon begins his odyssey â and in Mayo, where most of the Playboyâs action occurs.
But by his own account, a crucial part of Syngeâs education also happened in the east, among the Wicklow Mountains, where he set his early one-act play, In the Shadow of the Glen (1903).
That too was based on a story heard from Dirane and yet when writing it, Synge recalled years later: âI got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servant girls in the kitchenâ.
Tianjin is a highly industrialised city in the northeast of China.
Since it’s located on the other side of the world, you may be forgiven for thinking it has absolutely nothing to do with Ireland, or country living, or agriculture.
But then, you’ve never met Haoyang Jiao: Tianjin native, University College Dublin (UCD) student and Irish enthusiast.
To the outside world, Haoyang (who has taken the Irish name Caoimhin, which is how we will now refer to him) is just another international student.
He attends UCD, where he is completing double major linguistics and German, and has been living in Dublin since 2019.
UCD international student Haoyang Jiao dreams of green fields and small farms farmersjournal.ie - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from farmersjournal.ie Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.