Fintan O’Toole never minces his words. Here’s his assessment of the U. S. withdrawal from the Paris Accords. “Paris accord exit signals end of US global leadership“
Spring 2017 Events
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September 2016 Newsletter
NOTE: the house concert and the first two films have been postponed by Hurricane Matthew.
Charleston Irish Architects: Lecture
Charleston Irish Architects 11 February, 7pm, Addlestone Library, Rm. 227 Robert Stockton lectures on such figures as James Hoban and John Devereux, internationally-known architects who practiced in Charleston. Their legacy still surrounds us. Free and open to the public.
Celtic Night at the Music Hall
Ballyshane Cottage, Shannon Harbour
After eight days on the west coast of Ireland, CofC study abroad students wearily returned to Dublin today. Along the way, we rested for tea at Ballyshane Cottage, Shannon Harbour, in County Offaly. The house is three hundred years…
Thoor Ballylee open again!
Thoor Ballylee, the fifteenth-century fortified tower house that Yeats renovated and lived in during the Anglo-Irish and Irish Civil Wars, is opened again for visits. Local folks near Gort, County Galway, have collaborated to recover the site from the flood…
CofC in Ireland
Six promising scholars from several majors at the College of Charleston are studying Irish mythology and the Celtic Revival right now in Ireland. We arrived last Sunday, in the last three days we’ve gotten what seems like a week’s worth…
Irish American Marine killed in Chattanooga
One of those killed in Chattanooga was an Irish American from Massachusetts, 40-year old gunnery sergeant Thomas J. Sullivan. Click on the picture to read the report at Irish Central.