
In Dublin everybody knows the Beshoff Bros fish and chip shops. The history of this institution is no less impressive than the fare served there. The restaurant was founded by a subject of the Russian empire, Ivan Beshov, who took part in the mutiny on the battleship Potemkin in 1905. He outlived all the members […]
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The pipe smoked by Sherlock Holmes was carved in the factory of the immigrant Karl Peterson. Products under the Peterson brand are still highly valued by all lovers of the pipe. It all began with the brothers Friederich and Heinrich Kapp, who emigrated from Nuremberg (Germany) to Ireland. In 1885 in Dublin the brothers opened […]
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The remarkable Irish composer John Field was an excellent piano player and teacher. He gave the world an entirely new musical form, the nocturne, and for this reason his friends called him “The father of the nocturne”. This Irishman devoted most of his life to Russia. John Field was born in 1782 in Dublin. He […]
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Nowadays the Irishman, Peter Edmund Lacy, born in Limerick, is considered one of Russia’s greatest generals. Political turbulence characterized the second half of 17th century in Irish history. The wars that started in the 1640s in Ulster had devastated the country. At the end of the century, after a long series of defeats, twenty thousand […]
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Do you speak Russian in the home? Do you visit public libraries? Would you like to have more books and other materials in Russian in the library? Are there types of books or perhaps works by favourite authors you think our Public Libraries should have for children and young people? Take part in our survey […]
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Анна Руни приехала на Зеленый остров в 2000 году вслед за мужем-ирландцем. Жить стала в родном городке мужа – крохотном Клонасе, что в графстве Монахан. В те времена иммигрантов в Ирландии было очень мало, а в Клонасе – очень может быть, что вообще ни одного. Но Анна быстро приспособилась к новой жизни. Она начала заниматься […]
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Многие русскоязычные жители Ирландии хорошо знают отца Георгия Завершинского, который был одним из первых священников Русской Православной Церкви в Ирландии, и много лет служил в Петропавловском храме – Патриаршем подворье в Дублине. Сейчас отец Георгий является благочинным Сурожской епархии в Шотландии и Северной Ирландии. На территории Республики Ирландия отец Георгий окормляет приход церкви святого Колмана […]
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Отец Михаил Насонов– настоятель патриаршего подворья святых апостолов Петра и Павла в Дублине.
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Father Michael Gogolev was born in Lille, northern France and grew up in Menton, near Nice. He’s from a “White emigré” family. The future priest’s parents came to France and brought up their children there. “My whole family, parents, wife, daughter are French” says Father Michael. “That is why I always say that I am […]
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Школа «Радуга» существует второй год, открыли ее две русские по духу женщины и добились больших результатов. «Хотя, в начале, было тяжело, мы никого не знали, никто не поддерживал, – говорит директор «Радуги» Светлана Усович. – Зато было большое желание сделать что-то хорошее и важное для наших детей». У Светланы, которая родом из Белоруссии, два маленьких […]
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