Mahatma Gandhi
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Indian independence commemoration to remember former Cork mayor
- Irish News
- January 26, 2020, 22:22
The international impact that Lord Mayor of Cork Terence MacSwiney had when he died in hunger strike in 1920 in Ireland’s struggle for freedom will be(...)

Lucy Kellaway: I won’t worry any less in 2020 but I will try to worry smarter
- Work
- December 29, 2019, 16:49
As a new decade is about to begin, I find myself worrying about a lot of things. For a start, there are my year-11 economics students, who sit their G(...)

First statue of a woman unveiled at London’s Parliament Square
- UK
- April 24, 2018, 10:47
A statue of 19th century British feminist leader Millicent Fawcett was unveiled in London’s Parliament Square on Tuesday, the first monument honourin(...)

New inquiry into Gandhi’s assassination sought
- Asia-Pacific
- October 16, 2017, 20:54
India’s supreme court has appointed an amicus curiae in a petition seeking a new investigation into Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination nearly 70 years ago(...)

We Yazidis understand the forces of hatred that threaten civilisation
- Opinion
- April 18, 2017, 01:00
Wednesday, April 19th, is New Year’s Day for the Yazidi community, one of the oldest cultures in the world. Yazidis are an ethnoreligious group based(...)

Cork-born activist makes list of top revolutionaries
- Irish News
- September 6, 2015, 18:52
The naming of Cork born Mother Jones beside Ernesto Ché Guevara, Mahatma Gandhi and Leon Trotsky among the world’s greatest revolutionaries is testame(...)

Relatives gather to honour those lost in Air India disaster
- Irish News
- June 23, 2015, 16:04
The grey clouds that stretched between the Mizen and Sheep’s Head peninsulas gave way to a streak of bright blue sky as relatives of those who died(...)

TV View: Teasmade, cuddly toy and two points from the Stadio Olimpico
- Sport
- February 9, 2015, 06:00
Are you old enough to remember the conveyor belt on the Generation Game? No? Well, a bunch of fabulous prizes whizzed by under the contestants’ noses (...)
Peacemakers Yousafzai and Satyarthi rewarded for their courage
- Asia-Pacific
- October 11, 2014, 00:22
Yesterday’s award of the Nobel peace prize to Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi is a richly deserved celebration of the courage and effectiveness(...)

Ian Paisley: a firebrand who learned to compromise
- Politics
- September 13, 2014
In 2006, about a year before Ian Paisley stunned the world by going into government with Sinn Féin, I was talking to a clearly troubled senior memb(...)