‘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, […]

Ditched In Derrygimla the first transatlantic flight

In 1913 Lord Northcliffe, proprietor of the Daily Mail, offered a prize of £10,000 for the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic by a ‘heavier than air’ machine. A seventy-two […]

Portraying Irish America: Trans-Atlantic Revisions by Dennis Clark

As Ireland’s historians have duelled through contentious and sometimes acrimonious debate in recent years about new research and revisions concerning Irish history, historians in the United States have been engaged […]

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 […]

The Sorcery Trial of Alice kyteler by Bernadette Williams

In 1324, Richard Ledrede, bishop of Ossory, declared that his diocese was a hotbed of devil worshippers. The central figure in this affair was Alice Kyteler, a wealthy Kilkenny woman […]