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A Viking house and garden at Glasnevin

Those who have experienced the beautiful buildings and smell of wood smoke at Ferrycarrig Heritage Park in Wexford will know the sense of immediacy and delight a well-crafted replica building […]

‘A fine figure of a man’

‘Brian Boru was a fine figure of a man and all the women of Ireland were after him . . .’ So says the ‘kindly’ Christian Brother to bemused pupils […]

March 1 Sat 10am National Gallery of Ireland, Merrion Sq. W, lecture theatre. War Artists study day. Speakers: Keith Jeffery, Brendan Rooney, Seán Rainbird, Kathleen Palmer, Sebastian Barry, Brian Maguire, […]

April 26

1937 During the Spanish Civil War, the Basque town of Guernica, a bastion of Republican resistance, was pounded by the German Condor Legion with high-explosive bombs and at least 3,000 incendiary bombs. Over 1,600 people were killed in the subsequent firestorm.
1900 Queen Victoria concluded her final, three-week visit to Ireland, the purpose of which was to encourage Irishmen to join the British Army and fight in the Second Boer War. Nationalist opposition to her visit was led by Arthur Griffith and his newspaper, The United Irishman.
1974 Nineteen Old Masters paintings were stolen from the Blessington, Co. Wicklow, home of Sir Alfred and Lady Beit by a Provisional IRA gang which included Dr Rose Dugdale.

A Viking house and garden at Glasnevin

‘A fine figure of a man’

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