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Catalpa Performed and directed by Donal O’Kelly Music by Trevor Knight Axis Theatre, Ballymun, 18 September 2008 Running Beast Performed and directed by Donal O’Kelly Music by Michael Holohan National […]

The forgotten ‘Fishery’ of Arklow

References to fishing grounds off Arklow can be found in Patrician legends and medieval documents. Over the centuries the activity and the area became synonymous, so that by the 1800s […]

From the files of the DIB…Originator of the ‘New Departure’

O’KELLY, James Joseph (1845–1916), Fenian, journalist and MP, was born near Westland Row, Dublin, eldest among five children of John O’Kelly, petty landlord, dray-maker and blacksmith, and his wife (née […]

‘Hottentot Venus’: the exhibition of Sara Baartman in Dublin in 1812

In a recent issue (HI 19.2, March/April 2011) Stephanie Rains wrote about the ‘native’ village exhibitions that Ireland both played host to and provided subject-matter for from the 1880s to […]

Difficulties and opportunities: making sense of the Fenians

Founded 150 years ago, the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) was a secret, oath-bound, revolutionary organisation dedicated to the establishment of an independent Irish republic by force. The Fenians (as they […]