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 […]

Le Projet d’Irlande’: Huguenot migration in the 1690s by Randolph Vigne

It must have seemed a God-given set of circumstances: in Ireland after the Williamite war many areas of depopulated and unproductive countryside; in Europe several hundred thousand displaced persons ready […]

Collaborator and Survivor? Gerald the eleventh Earl of Kildare and Tudor Rule in Ireland

Collaboration usually implies betrayal, or deviation from some sanctified cause. Viewed from the opposite perspective, it is an ingenious, even admirable recipe for survival. This article considers the role of […]