Interpreting The Twelfth by Dominic Bryan

Yet it is through participation on these occasions that diverse classes of Protestants have come to express and interpret their political position in a locality, their understanding of specific political […]

History Women and History Men: the politics of women’s history by Mary Cullen

Current developments in women’s history did not just happen. They grew directly from the contemporary feminist movement. The roots of feminism lie in the behaviour-patterns societies have prescribed for women […]

Reinventing Tradition: the boundaries of Irish dance by Helen Brennan

Popular culture has long been used in Europe in the construction of ‘national’ ideologies. With the development of the strong nation-state in Europe, elites have also tried to suppress or […]

The real importance of Sir Roger Casement by Paul Bew

Sir Roger Casement deserves better. The former senior British Consular official 1895-1913 had, as his friend, the highly respectable Presbyterian minister /.B. Armour of Ballymoney put it, ‘an inborn hatred […]

Irish Trade Unions before Congress by Fergus D’Arcy

On 27 and 28 April 1894 one hundred and nineteen delegates of labour organisations assembled in the Trades’ Hall, Capel Street, Dublin to found the Irish Trade Union Congress. Those […]