nollaig na mban

Like Hilary Copeland from the Irish Writers Centre, I grew up North of the border knowing nothing of the Irish language and much less about traditions like that of Nollaig na nBam, where, after the madness of Christmas, women had a night…

This week, everybody on Twitter went back to work after Christmas, and tweeted complaints about going back to work after Christmas. It went on for days. It was tragic. But what everybody on Twitter also tweeted about was the Renua…