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Ireland

Early evening landscape shot of the quays in Dublin City, Ireland
Posted inCulture, Nonfiction, Reading List, Story

Shamrocks Not Required: A Reading List on Modern Ireland

by Clare Egan March 17, 2022October 19, 2022

Eight stories to complicate your clichéd idea of Ireland.

Posted inBooks, Featured, Highlight, Science & Nature, Story

‘The Fledglings Are Out!’

by Longreads May 4, 2021October 19, 2022

“Peering in, I see that last week’s eggs are now chicks. Tiny bright-yellow beaks, mouths opening and closing silently. This is the magic.”

Posted inArts & Culture, Featured, Highlight, Profiles & Interviews, Quote Posts, Quotes

Can Sinéad O’Connor Find Peace?

by Krista Stevens March 27, 2020October 19, 2022

“She can be shy and insecure. And yet she didn’t hesitate to stare down the cameras on American television to call out one of the most powerful men in the world.”

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

Brigid, Magdalene, My Mother, and Me

by Carmel Mc Mahon November 11, 2019January 13, 2023

Carmel Mc Mahon contemplates the legacy of trauma passed down through generations of Irish women.

Posted inCulture, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Sports, Travel

Surf Where You Least Expect It

by Aaron Gilbreath August 21, 2019October 19, 2022

Do you want reliable California breaks with reliable California crowds, or are you ready to take your chances in frigid Irish water where you’ll share waves with no one else?

Posted inBooks, History, Science & Nature, Story, Unapologetic Women

A British Seaweed Scientist Is Revered in Japan as ‘The Mother of the Sea’

by Longreads August 8, 2018October 19, 2022

Kathleen Drew-Baker died never having set foot in Japan, and never knowing what an impact her research would make. Plus, how to build a lazy bed, how to cook Irish blancmange, and other surprising seaweed stories.

Posted inNonfiction, Story

Smooth Spaces, Fuzzy Lives

by Rachel Andrews July 23, 2018October 19, 2022

The border of Northern Ireland was one Rachel Andrews thought she could never cross. Then it began to dissolve.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Ireland’s Forgotten Women

by Aaron Gilbreath February 9, 2017October 19, 2022

In Little Atoms, JP O’ Malley tells the story of the Irish nuns who a multi-million dollar corporation exploited to help produce its toys.

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