When the First World War started, John Redmond, leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, came to a decision aimed at delivering Home Rule at the war’s end. After the foreign […]
Read More →I gaze as I write at two photographs, presented to me by their subjects’ grandchildren: one of Seán O’Casey’s sister Isabella (the ‘Ella’ of his semi-fictionalised autobiographies), and the other […]
Read More →Inside less than three weeks 160 prisoners were tried by field general court martial. The trials took place in secret and none of the prisoners were represented by lawyers. Most […]
Read More →Garden history was long the province of the amateur. In recent decades it has become more the activity of the professional academic, with chairs and lectureships in a number of […]
Read More →‘’Pon my word, taking it all in, that young man didn’t do so badly by my Custom House’, muses a congenial ghost of James Gandon in a Dublin Opinion cartoon […]
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