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Restoration Dublin in the Ireland of its time c. 1660-1700

Dublin’s eighteenth-century architecture—Trinity College, the Bank of Ireland, City Hall, and such Georgian boulevards as have survived—is the most obvious remnant of the city’s past for the passer-by to notice. But what about the period that gave rise to this eighteenth-century splendour? John Gibney sets Restoration Dublin in the Ireland of its time.
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Featured Articles

'Infatuated to his ruin': the fate of Thomas Dermody, 1775-1802
'Infatuated to his ruin': the fate of Thomas Dermody, 1775-1802 Michael Griffin outlines the career of Thomas Dermody, poète maudit and/or infamous drunk, one of the better-supported and less talented poets in Irish history. Read More >>

Francis Leopold McClintock, the 'Arctic Fox'
Francis Leopold McClintock, the 'Arctic Fox' David Murphy outlines the career of Sir Francis Leopold McClintock from Dundalk, Co. Louth, Ireland’s most important polar explorer of the nineteenth century. Read More >>

Alexander Mitchell (1780-1868): Belfast's blind engineer
Alexander Mitchell (1780-1868): Belfast's blind engineer Jim Blaney tells the story of Alexander Mitchell, who, in spite of blindness, revolutionised the building of lighthouses and other maritime structures through his invention of the screw pile. Read More >>

The 1956 polio epidemic in Cork
The 1956 polio epidemic in Cork Poliomyelitis (polio) was scarcely known in Ireland before the 1940s. Laurence Geary relates how in the summer and early autumn of 1956 Cork became the epicentre of the most extensive epidemic in Ireland’s history. Read More >>

Hungary 1956
Hungary 1956 Terry Cox examines the causes, the events and the abiding historical significance of the ultimately unsuccessful Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Read More >>

‘A great Daily Organ’: the Freeman’s Journal, 1763–1924
‘A great Daily Organ’: the Freeman’s Journal, 1763–1924 Newspapers are a staple source for historians and researchers. Felix M. Larkin outlines the history of the Freeman’s Journal and the part it has played in Irish public life. Read More >>