Peter O’Connor’s silver medal has largely been forgotten, but his 1906 triumph represented the Olympic games at its best. O’Connor won silver in the long jump event, and he was widely expected […]
Peter O’Connor’s Silver Medal: A Forgotten Olympian
Countess Lola Montez: The Irish Fraud, Dancer & Radical
Lola Montez, who was born as Eliza Gilbert, ran away from Ireland and reinvented herself as Spanish dancer of royal origin. This is her remarkable story.
I am Alone & Abandoned on St. Patrick’s Day
I feel alone and abandoned because a sense of Irish culture is absent from Madrid.
On Track – A Short Story
Then we raised a glass to JFK and a thousand more besides When I got back to my empty room I suppose I must have cried
Irish Slice of Madrid 