‘A happy monk’ Mark Tierney OSB: an appreciation by Felix Larkin

Dom Mark Tierney, who died in Belgium on 31 December 2011, was a notable liturgist and historian. A monk of Glenstal Abbey, he was born in Dublin in 1925 and […]

Ask Angela: reappraising the Irish ‘sexual repression’ narrative

The history of the sexuality of Ireland reveals the nation to be something of an oddity. No history is complete without reference to the range of demographic characteristics that set […]

Conflict in Ireland, 1916–1977: British cabinet papers on-line

A visit to the UK National Archives at Kew is always a special trip for researchers examining manuscripts from the vast collection of material housed at the impressive south London […]

Beehive bomb shelter

In 1939, as World War II approached, countries looking at what had happened in the Spanish Civil War prepared for a new form of warfare—attack on civilians from the air. […]

Ethnic cleansing? Protestant decline in West Cork between 1911 and 1926

In 1911 the Protestant population in West Cork (defined here as the seven rural districts south of the long-recognised ‘Protestant frontier’ of the Caha Mountains ridge that runs east to […]