BOOKWORM

The Olympics are upon us, and Bookworm was recently made aware of a fascinating testimony by Ireland’s first successful Olympian: Heiner Gillmeister (ed.), From Bonn to Athens, single and return: […]

Museum eye: ‘Patriot Games: Ireland and the Olympics’ Louth County Museum, Jocelyn Street, Dundalk

Located on the top floor, ‘Patriot Games’ looks at Irish involvement in the Olympics in the last 100 years—another ambitious project from Louth County Museum. It consists of a series […]

Film eye: An Chead Laoch: James Brendan Connolly

Baron Pierre de Coubertin’s dream of reinventing the ancient Olympian tradition was realised in 1896, when the first modern Olympics were held in Athens. The first medal of the games […]

The man from Kilmashogue

History Ireland marks the passing of James ‘Shay’ Courtney: soldier (he served with the Irish Army on the United Nations peace-keeping force in Cyprus); husband and father of all the […]

Women active in IRA flying columns?

Sir,—The caption—‘Women continued to play an active role in the War of Independence’—under the photograph on p. 41 of the last issue (Autumn 1996) [above] is misleading on two counts. […]