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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The tensions existing between what historians call ‘the two histories’.
Dr Regan and Mr Snide
‘Women of the pave’: prostitution in Ireland
Within a month of the launch of the first phase of the Irish census website—comprising the 1911 records for Dublin city and county—on 3 December 2007, the site received over a million hits. It has proved extremely popular with academics and genealogists, and most of all with ordinary people who have an interest in their family history and the history of their locality. Catriona Crowe of the National Archives of Ireland explains how it works.
John Reynolds tells the story of the c. 2,300 German prisoners of war detained between September 1914 and March 1915 at Richmond Barracks, Templemore (now the Garda Síochána College).
Michael Kennedy outlines how neutral Ireland’s Coastwatching Service became witness to the Battle of the Atlantic and Britain’s fourth worst merchant shipping disaster of World War II.
Bernadette Whelan explains how Ireland, in spite of its wartime neutrality and against the grain of a protectionist economic culture, participated in the European Recovery Programme, which in turn laid the basis for later development policy.
Ma¬gorzata Krasnodebska-D’Aughton looks at the style and iconography of seventeenth-century Franciscan altar plate and how these liturgical objects expressed both the religious and artistic ideas of their times.
Shortly before his death in October 2007, Diarmaid Fleming interviewed the man who was the last living link to the revolution that bore the modern Irish state.
‘I knew from the start, if I left a woman I really loved—the Great Society—to fight that bitch of a war, then I would lose everything at home, my hopes and my dreams.’ Sandra Scanlon outlines where it all went wrong for the presidency of Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Mary Davies and Damian Murphy kick off a new regular column based on the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage’s (NIAH) ‘Building of the month’.
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