TV Eye

Troid Fhuilteach TG4, 16 January 2008 Fastnet Films by John Gibney Boxing’s profile has declined in Ireland. Although the occasional high-profile bout will attract attention (Hatton v. Mayweather last December, […]

Theatre Eye

The Recruiting Officer George Farqhuar Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Dec. 207–Jan. 2008 by Eamon O’Flaherty Lynn Parker’s revival of The Recruiting Officer at the Abbey follows a string of brilliant productions […]

From the files of the DIB…The Mrs Miller of prose

ROS, Amanda McKittrick (1860–1939), was born Anna Margaret McKittrick on 8 December 1860 in Drumaness, Ballynahinch, Co. Down, fourth child of Edward Amlave McKittrick, head teacher at Drumaness High School, […]

Mapping the past

In recent years Irish scholars have become increasingly appreciative of early maps as a record of past landscapes, past geographical knowledge (and ignorance) and past geopolitical attitudes. To appreciate this […]

Hail Glorious St Patrick (x 2)

In the 1940s Myles na gCopaleen in his ‘Crushkeen Lawn’ column in the Irish Times denounced de Valera for wasting taxpayers’ money on the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, whose […]