Welcome to this week’s Student Hub email digest! We will be taking a break for the next few weeks and will return again in mid-August.
This week, we have:
50 best Irish albums of all time – in order: The final list reflects contemporary Irish music as much as it pays its respects to the past. There are no tokenistic inclusions here: everything was selected on merit alone. But we know what you're thinking: 'where the hell is astral weeks? Read more here.
‘Caithfidh an Stát iarracht níos fearr a dhéanamh chun tacú leis an teanga’
Tá an rialtas nua ag gníomhú le roinnt seachtainí anois. Cén tionchar a bheas aige ar an nGaeilge agus ar an nGaeltacht? Labhair Tuarascáil le Catherine Martin. Read more here.
Ellie Goulding: 'I was made to feel like a sexual object': Ellie Goulding has spent the coronavirus lockdown holed up in what is essentially the world's nicest student house. Read more here.
UCC president to retire early for 'personal reasons': The president of University College Cork Professor Patrick O'Shea has announced that he will retire early at the end of this year for "personal reasons". Read more here.
The Gael Becomes Irish: the prospects for the Irish language in Ireland today The enduring folkloric narrative by which merely a million starved with another million having emigrated is debunked by Mac Síomóin's citation of official UK government statistics according to which as many as 5 million Irish really died during the Great Famine. Read more here.
Banksy's coronavirus-related artwork removed from London underground train: Banksy's latest artwork inside a London Underground train carriage, with messages about the spread of coronavirus, has been removed by Transport for London (TfL). Read more here.
