Ongoing efforts to save last rebel HQ

Since our report on the threatened demolition of 16 Moore Street, the final HQ of the 1916 leadership (HI 11.2, Summer 2003), the building has remained standing. However, despite a […]

‘The strange thing I am’: his father’s son?

‘For the present I have said enough to indicate that when my father and mother married there came together two very widely remote traditions—English and Puritan and mechanic on the […]

The Roll of Honour of 1916

‘At the request of the Easter Week Memorial Committee, a number of persons who participated in the Easter Week Rising, 1916 . . . undertook the task of preparing an […]

‘A work for other hands’: Patrick Pearse and St Ita’s College

In his account of St Enda’s, of which he was a pupil and where he came to know Pearse intimately, Desmond Ryan said simply: ‘It is hardly within my province […]

The Gardener of Glenstal

TG: Tell us a bit about your background. BM: I was typically London Irish. My father, John, came from a farming family with land at Tarelton and Inchigeelagh, Co. Cork. […]