🎉 Happy 250th Birthday Jane Austen! Today marks Jane Austen’s birthday and the 250th anniversary of her birth, #onthisday in 1775. 📖 Today we are celebrating her life and incredible contribution to English literature and getting excited for our virtual birthday party!

17 December 1943 | Łucja Charewiczowa (b. 1897, no. 64373) perished in Auschwitz. A historian of Lwów (Lviv) & researcher on the history of women. In July 1943, for joining the resistance, she was imprisoned in Pawiak prison in Warsaw & deported to Auschwitz, where she died of

19 December 1942 | Slovak Jewish woman, Eva Umlauf, was born in Novaky camp. She was deported to Auschwitz on 3 November 1944 in a transport of Jews from Sered in Slovakia, together with her whole family as a two-year-old child. She was liberated on 27 January 1945. Today she

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is recruiting English to Irish translators for temporary positions in the lead up to, and during, the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Find out more: gov.ie/en/department-…

19 December 1941 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Marta Weisz, was born in Sárköz. During the war, she lived in Szatmárnémeti. On 31 May 1944, she was murdered in a gas chamber of Auschwitz II-Birkenau. --- Watch our webinar about deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz:

Matchday for Mo 👊🇪🇬 Salah and Egypt National Team begin their Africa Cup of Nations campaign against Zimbabwe this evening ⚽️

On New Year’s night, when people gathered to welcome the new year together, Russia attacked Ukrainian cities, remaining true to its priorities of killing, terror, and exhaustion. The regions of Volyn, Kharkiv, Odesa, and Kherson were affected. The first civilian victim of

Aillte🏔️🌊 🔎 Sraith nua ag tosnú 18/01 ag 21:30, le Chormac Mac Fhionnlaoich ar thuras mórthimpeall na n-aillte.

Tá cara mór de chuid an Saol Ó Dheas imithe ar shlí na fírinne, sin é Seán Ó Sé, nó an Pocar mar a tugtaí go ceanúil air, fear ná fuil áireamh ar a thréithe mar dhuine lách, uasal, íseal, ná mar amhránaí oilte, proifisiúnta, a thug taitneamh d'óg is aosta i gcian is i gcóngar.

An-bhrón orm a chloisteáil go bhfuair Sean Ó Sé bás inniu. Bhain mé an-taitneamh as a cheol. Ba ionadh mór dom, agus ba aoibheann dom, é a chloisteáil ag canadh ar an tsráid i rith Comhaltas Fleadh Cheoil i nDroichead Átha i 2019. Nasc a bhí ann idir ár gcultúr ársa Gaelach agus an lá

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Ceardlann na gCrosóga Bhríde / St Brigid’s Workshop (In Irish & English) Weds 28 January 2026 Coventry Irish Soc 11.00am-12.00pm (followed by a Ciorcal Comhrá) #LáFhéileBríde #StBrigidsDay #SBD #SBD2026 #100DaysofGaeilge #Gaeilge #imbolc

I am so very grateful I was allowed to write The Times and The Sunday Times obituary of Conor Gearty, Irish human rights barrister and academic, and a cofounder (with Cherie Blair) of Matrix - which has just run. It’s a testimony to the seriousness of The Times that my editors so generously

Irish workers are the world's best equipped with the new skills needed for the rapidly changing work environment, says the IMF. What sets us apart is robust investment in tertiary education and lifelong learning programs that help workers adapt as technology evolves. 🇮🇪🥇

Today, Thomas Byrne spoke with the Minister of European Affairs for Denmark, Marie Bjerre , on Greenland. Minister Byrne underlined Irish support for Denmark’s approach to diplomatically resolve the situation in Greenland. Read more: gov.ie/en/department-…

Tá neart imeachtaí Gaeilge ag teacht Coventry Irish Soc 💚 #100DaysofGaeilge #GaeilgeGachLá #StBrigidsDay #LáFhéileBríde

📣 EU Presidency County Pairings Announced! During our EU Presidency term, each county in the State will be “paired” with a specific EU Member State. Delighted to confirm those county pairings today. For more info ➡️ gov.ie/en/department-…

Óráid iontach a thug captaen buacach Paul Geaney uaidh tar éis do CLG Daingean Uí Chúis Craobh Club na hÉireann a thabhairt leo 🏆 Comhghairdeas mór le Daingean Uí Chúis! 🔴⚪️ Spórt TG4

Irish language to have equal status with English during Irish EU presidency irishtimes.com/politics/2026/…

“You can say so much more in one line of Irish than you can in English” The story behind one of the finest speeches I’ve heard in an awful long time from an All-Ireland winning captain, it struck a chord with many The Football Pod Club in Dingle, out now