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Sylvia Thompson

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 14, 2026
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Jul 11, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Sylvia Thompson

    ‘US business people buy properties in Ireland because they love everything about it’ (opens the original)

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    Westmeath-born businessman Desmond Keogh is the first Irishman to become president of the Irish Georgian Society in the United States. Now based in Florida, he took up the office in April. Keogh grew up on the 120-hectare (300-acre) Ballinakill Farm on Lough Derravaragh, Co Westmeath, and is passionate about Irish country houses. He bought Oakley Park House, outside Kells, in 2023. “I had been searching for a house in Ireland for three years. I wanted somewhere about half an hour from my mothe

  2. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Sylvia Thompson

    ‘It makes them more resilient’: Life in Ireland’s only Irish-language primary boarding school (opens the original)

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    School’s out for the 40 or so 11- to 12-year-old boarders at Scoil na Leanaí in Co Waterford’s Ring Gaeltacht. On the beautiful day when we visit (at the end of the last academic term), the girls are playing games on the AstroTurf pitches while the boys are playing a form of golf on the undulating green space behind the school. Activities, including squash, camogie, Gaelic football, hurling, rounders and volleyball, are led by cinnirí who also double up as house masters/mistresses in what

  3. Article · Sep 5, 2026 · Sylvia Thompson

    Find romance and potentially a bargain with a 19th century Irish artist (opens the original)

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    Rather than investing in contemporary artists whose work is currently selling well, what if you decided instead to take a longer-term view and invest in the work of artists whose paintings aren’t making high prices at the moment? There are a number of Irish artists born in the 19th century whose work is currently selling for a fraction of the price of works by more contemporary artists. Their somewhat romantic representation of the landscape is in stark contrast to more abstract landscape pain

  4. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Sylvia Thompson

    ‘Fear and regret’ in the midlands in wake of Ireland’s move away from peat (opens the original)

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    The idea of a “just transition” originated in the 1970s when the North American oil, chemical and atomic workers’ union called for a fund to support workers made redundant due to the environmental impact of their sector. Then in 2015, the concept of just transition was included in the pivotal Paris agreement that emerged from the United Nations climate change conference in France. In Ireland, just transition is most closely associated with rural communities in the midlands where commercial

  5. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · Sylvia Thompson

    Marvellous Melbourne: how to make the most of Australia’s cultural capital (opens the original)

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    Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria – Australia’s smallest state – is often deemed to be the cultural centre of this vast continent. It is also widely regarded as one of the best foodie hubs of Australia, with a wide range of ethnically diverse cafes and restaurants and cool rooftop bars. Having recently overtaken Sydney in terms of population, Melbourne is also the location of choice for many young people migrating from other parts of Australia as well as those coming from overseas. T

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