Peter Makem

Queen Elizabeth: Historic Reconciliation with Down-and-Out Ireland

June 8, 2011

By Peter Makem At the ultimate height of symbol and ritual was the deepest low of economic and social depression. When people were acclaiming the healing of the final wounds in the thousand-year-old Ireland/England saga, others were murmuring about the bankrupt country hosting the royal event. At the moment the Republic of Ireland had...
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Reflections on Liam Clancy and the Makem-Clancy Legend

January 10, 2010
Reflections on Liam Clancy and the Makem-Clancy Legend

By Peter Makem Sometime in the month of March of 1955 early in the evening, a knock came to my grandparent’s door at 44 Victoria Street, Keady, Co. Armagh. My grandmother Sarah, finding it strange that somebody should knock because the neighbors normally just walked in, went slowly to the door, opened it and...
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