What did the Romans (n)ever do for us?

Irish archaeologists are currently engaged in major new investigations into the remains of ancient Ireland and its connections with the Roman world (NUI Galway, ‘Ireland and the Roman World’; Discovery […]

Oral history and the politics of the Troubles: the Boston College tapes

The federal subpoena served on 5 May 2011 on the John J. Burns Library of Boston College established that events occurring as long ago as December 1972 have the capacity […]

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: ‘the two histories’

In late April 1922, thirteen Protestants were murdered or disappeared over three horrific nights in West Cork. In The IRA and its enemies (1998) Peter Hart described this as a […]

On this day

January 5 1922Sir Ernest Shackleton, polar explorer, died suddenly in South Georgia as he prepared to lead a fourth expedition to the Antarctic. 7 1922Dáil Éireann approved the Anglo-Irish Treaty […]

Immediate and terrible economic collapse?

In spite of severe ongoing cutbacks, not to mention a philistine and counterproductive proposal to amalgamate it with the National Library to save money, the National Archives scored another triumph […]