November 4 Tues 8.30pm Kilmacanogue History Society, Glenview Hotel, Glen of the Downs, Delgany, Co. Wicklow. Wicklow’s Irish ANZACS, Jeff Kildea. Adm. ?3. 5 Wed 6.30pm Old Dublin Society, Dublin […]
Read More →September 1 Mon 8pm Celbridge Historical Society, Celbridge Library. The quiet quarterback—Protestants and the GAA, Ida Milne. 6 Sat 11.30pm Bray Cualann Historical Society, Ballywaltrim Library, Boghall Road. County Wicklow’s […]
Read More →‘The only consideration which activated the minds of the Unionist powers . . . was that two-thirds of the population of Londonderry were Catholics. They sited the university in the […]
Read More →In September 1949 Dr Wenceslao Oliveros arrived in Ireland on a scientific mission to visit UCD and its president, Michael Tierney. Richard Mulcahy, minister for education in the first interparty […]
Read More →Records of the Poor Law Unions, 1840s–1924 From the early 1840s until 1924, approximately half of all destitute children in Ireland were accommodated in the workhouse system. Unfortunately, there is […]
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