Person: Patrick MacGill

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

<p>Islands of Ireland: you can walk to Inishkeel Island, County Donegal, if you check the tide tables carefully</p>

outdoors

Islands of Ireland: Donegal's Inishkeel has murderous and murdered saints, blue seas, and ruined churches — but no bell

St Conall’s bell and bell shrine are kept in the British Museum but perhaps it is time to bring them 'home' to our National Museum in Dublin

columnists

Mick Clifford: We must rethink how we treat migrants

business

Irish summer schools must move with times

Sack the gardaí who defied points order

The killing fields at Flanders are worth a visit

MacGill divergence

John McColgan (Aug 9) seems to be slightly at variance with Dr Elaine Byrne and your own Michael Clifford in his assessment of the annual Summer School in Glenties.

Mon, 20 Aug, 2012

Minimum wage calls made at school dedicated to working class champion

IF Dr Peter Bacon and Finance Minister Brian Lenihan felt no sense of shame in seeking to undermine minimum wage protection, they might at least have had a sense of occasion at the bitter irony of making such statements at a summer school dedicated to the memory of Patrick MacGill, that “graduate” of Ulster’s hiring fairs and Scotland’s navvy camps.

Sat, 25 Jul, 2009

McDowell looks to reconciled island

Northern Ireland and the Republic can become “political” partners on a reconciled island very soon, Justice Minister Michael McDowell said today.

Wed, 20 Jul, 2005