Museum eye: The Tenement Experience

The Tenement Experience 14 Henrietta Street, Dublin 1 www.1913committee.ie by Tony Canavan Henrietta Street, off Bolton Street, is one of the oldest surviving streets in Dublin. Most of the houses […]

Big Jim Larkin: Hero and Wrecker

ITGWU founded The ITGWU marked the birth of the modern Irish labour movement. Less than 10% of Irish workers were unionised at this time, and most of these were in […]

Coercive confinement in Ireland: patients, prisoners and penitents

Coercive confinement in Ireland: patients, prisoners and penitents Eoin O’Sullivan and Ian O’Donnell (Manchester University Press, £65) ISBN 9780719086489   Coercive confinement in Ireland puts the spotlight on the wide […]

James Hack Tuke and his schemes for assisted emigration from the west of Ireland

Throughout the nineteenth century the west of Ireland experienced frequent subsistence crises and famines, as the region’s resources were incapable of supporting its large population. During the Great Famine the […]

Fighting for Lincoln? Irish attitudes to slavery during the American Civil War

The correlation between the growth of the Southern cotton industry in the nineteenth century and the slave population is unmistakable: in 1790 Southern plantations produced only 70,000 bales of raw […]