SAINT CLAIR — Frank Buffalino loves cuckoo clocks, but he concedes having 50 tiny wooden birds going off at once is a bit much. “We used to have all our clocks set to the same time,” he recalled, “but ...

The morning milkiness of May streamed in the sunlight, uplifting the small fields with visible outlines of potato ridges where crops had once fed a townland. There is virtually nothing here now but ...

The 13th-century round known as the Reading Rota or, more informally, The Cuckoo Song, isn't about the approach of summer, but its arrival. "Sumer is icumen in" is frequently mistranslated, but ...

A cuckoo calls, breaking the silence across a valley where outlines of old potato ridges are the only visible traces of the families who lived and laboured here in north Leitrim. A week ago, further ...