Born in 1775, Rochfort was part of the seventeenth generation to descend from the original de Rochefort settlers and, as such, enjoyed an impressive pedigree in the Anglo-Irish élite. He […]
Read More →Eoin MacNeill (1867–1945) was above all a scholar, a historian of early and medieval Ireland, and an Irish linguist. His call for Irish nationalists to establish a militia in imitation […]
Read More →The Irish Cyclist presented a fascinating picture of cyclists in Dublin’s Phoenix Park in May 1896, during the cycling craze: ‘To laze away a few hours in the Phoenix Park […]
Read More →Cycling was a fringe pursuit for most of the period since the first crude form of bicycle, the Draisienne or dandy-horse or hobby-horse, appeared in Ireland in the summer of […]
Read More →In November 1897 the editor of the Irish Wheelman, J.C. Percy, surveying recent developments in the cycling trade in Ireland, declared that ‘Cycling has now found its level, which happily […]
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