Nearly 300 years ago, the first Black performer to play Juliet was Rachael Baptiste, an Irishwoman also hugely successful as a singer.
She performed in Lancashire in the mid-1700s.

Every conference I've ever been at
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Irish films to have unprecedented prominence at May Cannes Festival irishtimes.com/culture/film/2…

It's mind-boggling how many Irish people will tell you 'the Irish emigrated but we never asked for anything' when you remember what the 80s were like in London - but for those who care about the facts.... rte.ie/archives/exhib…

BREAKING: Every Arizona Republicans just voted to uphold the 1864 territorial abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest.

Sr Stanislaus says that there is hardly a house in the country that has not had a family member who had to go abroad for work. She reminds us that we should not lose sight of this for those who come here fleeing poverty & persecution in their countries.
independent.ie/opinion/commen…

Daughter of the editor of The Telegraph on how hard it was to get a start in her career as a journalist in The Telegraph.

Also, how she struggled with money, being a mere member of the banking Coutts family.

As a Duran Duran fan this is my favourite question!

I was recently in London. It was white as a bag of bleached flour. He’s talking out of his hoop. This is the kind of alarmist shite that gets people targeted and killed. (As we learned with trans people). (As we learned with immigrants). As we should now know.

No thanks.

When you proclaim yourself ‘stifled’ via your weekly column in the Sunday Independent

now I want to live in Inishowen again

Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo (feat. Takashi Murakami) Brooklyn Museum is an absolute triumph. Go early to avoid the crowds.

'the book is not about how to be an artist, so to speak; it’s actually about, how do you live the kind of life you want to live?” -- spoke to the brilliant Sinéad Gleeson about her gorgeous debut novel, Hagstone, for this weekend's Irish Times Magazine
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This is how a party that has been captured by an authoritarian behaves. There can be no independence of the RNC from the personal needs of the leader because the GOP no longer has any role beyond being Trump's tool.

According to NBC News analysis of videos, photos, and interviews with university staff and students, at least 5 of Gaza’s 7 major universities have been destroyed or partially damaged since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.

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Trump’s wife is an immigrant. Her parents immigrated to America based on what he contemptuously dubbed “chain migration.” (We’ve yet to hear what “outstanding abilities” she possessed to win an O1 visa). Trumps own mother was an immigrant. “Poisoning the blood?” He’s full of it.