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‘MARRIED WOMAN GETS DEGREE’ was the immortal headline in a Mayo newspaper in 1955 when local woman Sheila Mulloy (née O’Malley) was awarded a Ph.D for her […]

Museum eye:Ireland in Turmoil: the 1641 depositions The Long Room, Trinity College Library, Dublin http://www.tcd.ie/history/1641 Until 3 April 2011 by Tony Canavan

If you are a first-time visitor to the Old Library in Trinity College, then a ticket for €9 is good value as it includes the Book of Kells exhibition as […]

TV eye:Bóthar na Saoirse Guerilla days in Ireland: Scéal Tom Barry My fight for Irish freedom: Scéal Dan Breen On another man’s wound: Scéal Ernie O’Malley Black Rock Pictures for TG4, autumn 2010 by John Gibney

The Irish revolution produced three memoirs that tower above all others, and each one lends its title to an episode of this useful and engaging series. Tom Barry was the […]

Film eye:James Connolly: a working class hero Directed by Brian O’Flaherty, Bruno Dog Productions by Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh

It is strange that a life like James Connolly’s has not inspired more documentaries, but the fact remains that this new DVD stands almost alone in its field. One of […]

April 16

1871 John Millington Synge, key figure in the Irish Literary Revival, co-founder of the Abbey Theatre and playwright, notably of The Playboy of the Western World, born in Newtown Villas, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin.
1947 The expression ‘Cold War’, a war waged through proxies, was coined by the US statesman and millionaire financier Bernard Baruch.
1917 After twelve years in exile, the leading Russian Bolshevik, Vladimir Illyich Lenin (47), arrived in St Petersburg after a week-long journey from Zurich in a sealed train.
1862 Sir Thomas Wyse, politician and diplomat and major player in the struggle for Catholic Emancipation, died in Athens.
1660 Sir Hans Sloane, physician and collector, whose natural history collection formed the foundation of the British Museum, was born at Killyleagh Castle, Co. Down.

Bookworm

Museum eye:Ireland in Turmoil: the 1641 depositions The Long Room, Trinity College Library, Dublin http://www.tcd.ie/history/1641 Until 3 April 2011 by Tony Canavan

TV eye:Bóthar na Saoirse Guerilla days in Ireland: Scéal Tom Barry My fight for Irish freedom: Scéal Dan Breen On another man’s wound: Scéal Ernie O’Malley Black Rock Pictures for TG4, autumn 2010 by John Gibney

Film eye:James Connolly: a working class hero Directed by Brian O’Flaherty, Bruno Dog Productions by Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh

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