Situated in a purpose-designed building, the Somme Heritage Centre is dedicated to Ireland and the First World War. Although located in a place with a strong unionist heritage, the centre […]

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My father’s war RTÉ 1, April 2015   For the centenary years of the First World War (2014–18) the BBC are deploying their vast resources across TV, radio and on-line […]

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July 2/1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Civil Rights Act, a landmark in civil rights legislation in the United States, was passed. 5/1864 The Royal College of Physicians, Kildare Street, Dublin, […]

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By 1911 European governments were eyeing each other with suspicion but, for the time being, social and commercial life went on. This included an international exhibition in Ghent, Belgium. On […]

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Last year Faye Rice, a committee member of Alexandra Presbyterian Church, Belfast, found a box of old lantern-slides in the organ loft of the church. There are 77 slides, consisting […]

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