Irelandâs border is a hot Brexit topic - hereâs a history of the partition
The division of the island is on the front burner again as many nationalists and republicans demand a border poll as allowed in the Good Friday Agreement.
Gerry OâShea
Mar 02, 2021
How Ireland s partition came to be and why it s a hot topic in recent times. Getty Images
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Money was always intended to be a servant for the people, a resource for the basic transactions of daily living. But the relationship between money and any kind of service in finance is becoming more remote.
To most decent citizens, it’s a chunk of concrete or stone outside their front door. For my late mother, it was the result of my many botched efforts to cut a slice from a fresh pan of baker’s bread.
Sarah Parker Remond lecturer, activist, and abolitionist Photo: Wikipedia
Continuing Christine Kinealy’s series on Black abolitionists who visited Ireland, we find, in Sara Parker Remond, a woman who was remarkable and fearless.
Frederick Douglass’s visit to Ireland 175 years ago an experience that he described as “transformative” has been commemorated on both sides of the Atlantic. However, Frederick was not the first or the last black abolitionist to spend time in the country, although he is the most celebrated. On 29 December 1858, Sarah Parker Remond sailed from Boston to Liverpool. Following a short stay in the north of England, Sarah travelled to Dublin, to lecture on abolition. Her gender not only marked her as an unusual spokesperson for abolition, but also her family connections. Sarah was the sister of Charles Lenox Remond who had lectured in Britain and Ireland in 1840 and 1841. During this time, he had spoken alongside Daniel O’Connell, then
A Visit to Glasnevin Cemetery
PAULA REDMOND recalls the history of the country’s larget graveyard and some of the well-known personalities buried there.
Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin is Ireland’s largest graveyard. Covering an area of over one hundred and twenty four acres, one and a half million people are laid to rest within its confines. Many of Ireland’s revered leaders, politicians, musicians, writers and other public figures are buried in Glasnevin – including Michael Collins, Charles Stewart Parnell and Éamon de Valera to name but some.
As a result of the Penal Laws of the 18th century, Catholics had no cemetery of their own in which to bury their dead. The issue came to a head when a Catholic priest in Dublin was reprimanded by a Protestant sexton for attempting to perform a shortened version of a Catholic funeral Mass.