Operation Shamrock

Operation Shamrock

On 27 July 1946, nine-year-old Hebert Remmel disembarked from the mail-boat at Dun Laoghaire and walked trancelike into the dense crowds gathered to greet him and the eighty-seven skinny and bewildered little boys and girls who had travelled with him. As he was hugged...
St Oswald and St John the Baptist – Two Heads are Bigger Than One

St Oswald and St John the Baptist – Two Heads are Bigger Than One

Exploring the links between Northumbria and Ireland through the holy islands of Iona and Lindisfarne and the Saxon prince who founded Mayo. Also looking at St Oswald - a military man who became a deeply religious convert to Irish Christianity on Iona, the HQ of St...