The Connemara Railway 1895-1935

The 1889 Light Railway (Ireland) Act was the first to provide government grants for the construction of railways, which had previously been the domain of private enterprise. This and subsequent […]

The Story of the Drumm Battery

At the end of June The Story of the Drumm Battery was launched at a function in the Harbour Bar, Bray. The booklet was written by Brian P. Hogan from […]

Clann na Talmhan: Ireland’s last farmers’ party

The absence of a strong tradition of farmer parties in a country with a very substantial proportion of the workforce engaged in agriculture has long been a source of puzzlement […]

‘Sheep stealers from the north of England’: the Riding Clans in Ulster by Robert Bell

The troubles of the last twenty five years have served to focus the minds of Ulster people on their history. They are more conscious than ever of their ancestors-Gaelic, Norman, […]

Irish co-operatives From creameries at the crossroads to multinationals by Carla King & Liam Kennedy

On the evening of 18 April 1894 a triumphant Horace Plunkett wrote in his diary: The meeting to inaugurate the lAOS [Irish Agricultural Organisation Society] came off and was brilliantly […]