Reputations: Nineteenth-Century Monuments in Limerick

Monuments were to the nineteenth-century city what corporate identity is to the modern business; they projected an image that spoke of specific character, unity and confidence. Is this just the […]

Daniel O’Connell: a tribute

I am very pleased to have been invited to mark here in the Reform Club the 150th anniversary of the death of Daniel O’Connell. It is an institution, after all, […]

Old Man of the Sea

DS:    How do you come to have such an interesting name as de Courcy Ireland? JDCI:    I don’t actually know the full story. The de Courcys were, of course, a […]

Hibernia im Ruhrgebiet: William Thomas Mulvany & the industrialisation of the Ruhr

To find the title Hibernia im Ruhrgebiet (Ireland in the Ruhr) on a ninth-century map of ecclesiastical centres would cause little or no surprise. To find the title on a […]

The United lrishmen & Hamburg

By 1795, the United Irishmen’s hope of bringing about change in Ireland by peaceful means had been shattered once and for all. French assistance to an Irish independence movement seemed […]