Tom Johnson
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Off the rails – An Irishman’s Diary on the 1920 munitions strike
- Opinion
- December 13, 2020, 18:01
The pandemic has curtailed public commemoration of the events of 1920. But it has not diminished our determination to remember the dead, and to expres(...)

Book of Sounds at Hugh Lane: This week’s classical highlights
- Music
- September 28, 2019, 05:00
Sunday, September 29th The Book of Sounds Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, hughlane.ie/forthcoming-sunday-concerts American composer Tom Johnson, a major (...)

Lost Irish musical genius finally getting recognition
- Music
- March 12, 2019, 05:30
“The music echoes in the emptiness. It reminds us where we came from and where we’re bound.” David Mutti Clark was referring to the blues in his(...)

When Limerick workers seized the city – for two weeks
- Heritage
- January 21, 2019, 00:00
“On Monday, April 14, there began in Limerick city a strike protest against military tyranny, which because of its dramatic suddenness, its completene(...)

Democratic Programme set out the vision for a new Republic
- Heritage
- January 21, 2019, 00:00
The Democratic Programme, one of four seminal documents adopted by the first Dáil, set out the vision for a new Republic upon which the War of Indepen(...)

First meeting of Dáil Éireann ‘would have done credit to the British House of Commons’
- Heritage
- January 21, 2019
January 21st, 2019 marks the centenary of the first meeting of Dáil Éireann, a landmark event in the evolution of an independent Ireland. The 1918 gen(...)

Labour Party unveils agenda to mark Dáil centenary
- Irish News
- January 19, 2019, 19:32
The Labour Party has unveiled a democratic programme on the 100th anniversary of the first Dáil. The original democratic programme was the work of t(...)

At a certain point in the first part of her two-part documentary on stress, Irish Times columnist Jennifer O’Connell meets a man in gloves in the midd(...)

Music is a universal language – with some border checks
- Music
- February 15, 2017, 06:00
Music, it is often said, is a universal language. But not everything musical travels equally freely across international borders. New music travels sl(...)

Conor O’Clery: Remembering the last day of the Soviet Union
- Europe
- December 24, 2016
At 7pm Moscow time, on December 25th, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev checked his spectacles were clean, glanced at his watch, then looked up at the camera an(...)