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On this day
Editor’s recommendation
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The tensions existing between what historians call ‘the two histories’.
Dr Regan and Mr Snide
A case of thoughtless vandalism
Catalogue editor Tom Dunne takes us through the career and work of eighteenth-century Irish painter James Barry, whose paintings and prints are exhibited at the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, until 4 March 2006.
Hiram Morgan reviews the exhibition of Dürer prints at the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin (until 7 February 2006), a must-see for anyone interested in the history of art, religion and printing.
History is marked by continuity as well as change. Seán Murphy cites one remarkable example: the ongoing publication of a biweekly official newspaper, Iris Oifigiúil, consciously modelled on and fulfilling basically the same functions as its imperial predecessor, the Dublin Gazette.
With particular reference to Limerick, Sharon Clancy relates how rabies was eradicated from Ireland by the early twentieth century.