Long Kesh prison camp, or HMP Maze as it was later renamed in the mid-1970s, sits on a 360-acre site just outside Lisburn, Co. Antrim. It’s the site where, over […]
Read More →BRANIGAN, James Christopher (‘Jim’, ‘Lugs’) (1910–86), Garda, was born on 6 January 1910 in the South Dublin Union, James St., eldest child of John Alick Branigan, South Dublin Union official, […]
Read More →Captain Jack White, an unsung hero of the Irish Revolution, first published his autobiography Misfit in 1930. He was an extraordinarily complex man and difficult to fit into any convenient […]
Read More →Richard Whately was possibly the strangest archbishop Ireland has ever known. An eccentric Oxford professor of political economy, he was appointed Church of Ireland archbishop of Dublin in 1831 and […]
Read More →Mollie Gill, often known as Maire, was born on 24 March 1891, one of four girls in a family of seven. Her father was a shoemaker and the family lived […]
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