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On this Day
May 15
s1971 Sir Tyrone Guthrie (71), theatre producer, died at his home, Annaghmakerrig House, Newbliss, Co. Monaghan, now a retreat for artists and writers. 2007 Bertie Ahern became the first taoiseach […]
May 18
s1939 The first aircraft landed on the new airfield at Rineanna, Co. Clare, later known as Shannon Airport. 1960 Sir Robert McCarrison, County Armagh-born medical scientist and world authority on […]
Events
May 18
Thur 8pm Bray Cualann Historical Society, Royal Hotel. Edward Lee, a model employer—remembering Lees of Bray, Michael Lees. Adm. €5.
From the Archives
Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa’s funeral
Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa was born in 1831 near Rosscarbery, Co. Cork, and in 1856 he formed the Phoenix National Literary Society in Skibbereen. This was a secret society whose aim […]
Tudor Fiants
Digitisation has transformed how we practise family history. There are over 120 million Irish historical records on-line. It is now possible to trace and document Irish families to a much […]
Hedge School
Forthcoming Hedge Schools
Editor Tommy Graham will be hosting a series of History Ireland Hedge Schools, lively round-table discussions with historians and well-known personalities.
Hedge School audios and videos
A collection of audio and video recordings of the 20+ more Hedge Schools we have put on around Ireland, featuring well-known historians in lively debate on popular and relevant topicsBook Reviews
THE WOODS OF IRELAND: A HISTORY, 700–1800
In these days of steel, concrete and plastic we have forgotten what a fundamental raw mat-erial timber once was. It was crucial to shipbuilding until the first iron-hulled vessels of […]
A NATION AND NOT A RABBLE: The Irish Revolution 1913–1923
Though subtitled ‘the Irish Revolution 1913–1923’, this work is as much concerned with how the revolution came to be remembered and contested in memory as it is with telling the […]
