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Information, Media and Power through the Ages, 24th Irish Conference of Historians, University College Cork 20-22 May 1999

The first biennial conference of the Irish Committee of Historical Sciences was held in July 1953 and since it has rotated between Ireland’s universities. The publicity flyer from University College […]

Irish History Students’ AssociationConference 2000

The Irish History Students’ Association’s annual conference will take place in the University of Limerick 4-6 February 2000. The Association will be celebrating the golden jubilee of its foundation in […]

Gateway for Irish Studies

A new ‘Gateway for Irish Studies in the Humanities’ has been set up athttp://www.ucd.ie/irh. Its purpose is to provide a single access pointfor new and innovative sites on the Internet […]

St Georges Bells to Ring Again

The sonorous sound of the unique set of bells from St George’s Church, Hardwicke Place, silent since the church closed in 1990, will be heard again ringing in the next […]

Tulach a’ tSolais

The beautiful and panoramic Oulart Hill in County Wexford was the site of a stunning victory for the United Irishmen in 1798. In recent years its history and natural unspoiled […]

April 23

1931 Chuck Feeney, businessman and philanthropist who gave away his fortune of $8 billion over a 38-year period, including $1.3b to projects in the Republic of Ireland and $570m to projects in Northern Ireland, born to Irish-American parents in New Jersey.
1971 C.B. (Cyril Bentham) Falls, military correspondent of The Times (1939–53), historian and author notably of The history of the 36th (Ulster) Division (1922), based on his own experiences, died.
1970 St Enda’s, Rathfarnham, the bilingual school founded by Patrick Pearse in 1908, was presented to the nation as a Patrick Pearse Museum.
1918 A general strike against conscription, organised by the Labour movement and supported by Sinn Féin, the IPP and the Catholic hierarchy, paralysed the country.
1616 William Shakespeare (52), dramatist and poet, died.
1014 The Battle of Clontarf, near Dublin. Brian Boru, claimant to the high kingship of Ireland, and his Munster forces defeated an army of Leinster Norse, supported by their kinsmen from Northumbria, the Isle of Man and the Orkneys.

Information, Media and Power through the Ages, 24th Irish Conference of Historians, University College Cork 20-22 May 1999

Irish History Students’ AssociationConference 2000

Gateway for Irish Studies

St Georges Bells to Ring Again

Tulach a’ tSolais

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