Museum eye:Revenue Museum/Músaem Ioncaim Chapel crypt, Dublin Castle www.revenue.ie/en/about/revenue-museum.html, +353 (0)1 8635 601 Mon.–Fri. 10am–4pm by Tony Canavan

The Revenue Museum recently featured in a book about the government’s waste of taxpayers’ money but this seems an unfair criticism of an interesting and well-presented exhibition. Sited in the […]

TV eye:The story of Ireland BBC/RTÉ, February/March 2011 by John Gibney

The story of Ireland arrived on British and Irish television screens with considerable fanfare, the first comprehensive TV history of Ireland since Robert Kee’s Ireland: a history in 1981. Now, […]

Enniscorthy Castle Castle Hill, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford

I can remember when the castle in Enniscorthy housed the unofficial Wexford county museum. It had all the attractions and flaws of a volunteer-run museum, with every room packed with […]

The Dublin region in the Middle Ages: settlement, land-use and economy

In Ireland we pride ourselves on our historical awareness. The Irish are interested in history, and in their own history in particular. This is obvious at a personal level in, […]

St Mary’s Abbey

The expression ‘hidden gem’ is so overused as to be almost valueless but it can be properly applied to St Mary’s Abbey. It really is hidden up a small lane […]