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James Hogan, revolutionary, historian, political scientist (1898-1963)

Bodin, Hobbes, Hegel, Weber, Troeltsch and Von Gierke were the political philosophers whom the late Professor James Hogan used lecture us on as his students in University College Cork in […]

A Journey of Remembrance: Wilson’s Hospital & the First World War

It all began in the classroom in Wilson’s Hospital school. Why, my Leaving Certificate history pupils wanted to know, did so many Irishmen enlist for the Great War. I endeavoured […]

Francis J. Crowley bequest

Under the terms of his will, the late Professor Francis J. Crowley,California, USA, who was of Irish descent, made a bequest to the Irishstate in which he provided that funds […]

‘In spite of all impediments’

Addressing the Dáil on 27 October 1919, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count George Plunkett, reported ‘a steady progress’ in the development of Ireland’s foreign relations ‘in spite of all […]

Though he was one of the towering figures of eighteenth-century Irish Patriotism, Henry Flood is little remembered today. Unlike Henry Grattan, with whom he is frequently twinned in historical memory, […]

May 15

1971 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 to address the Westminster parliament.
1948 The British mandate in Palestine expired. The state of Israel came into being.
1910 The Association of United Irishwomen, renamed the Irish Countrywomen’s Association (ICA) in 1934, which sought to provide rural women with a social outlet and educational opportunities, was founded by Anita Lett in Ballindara, Co. Wexford.
1847 Daniel O’Connell, ‘the Liberator’, died in Genoa.

May 18

1922 During continued violence in Belfast, three Catholics were shot dead and three Protestants the following day. Altogether 44 Catholics and 22 Protestants met with violent deaths in the city that month.
1939 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 the nature of deficiency diseases such as goitre and cretinism, died.
1928 Standish James O’Grady (81), historian and novelist, widely regarded as ‘the father of the Irish literary revival’, died.

James Hogan, revolutionary, historian, political scientist (1898-1963)

A Journey of Remembrance: Wilson’s Hospital & the First World War

Francis J. Crowley bequest

‘In spite of all impediments’

Henry Flood

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