Events

July 4 Sat 3pm National Gallery of Ireland, Clare Street, Dublin 2. Irish artists in France, 1860–1915. 8 Wed 1pm National Gallery of Ireland, Clare Street, Dublin 2. Depictions of […]

Trinity v. UCD

Since the middle of the nineteenth century there have been two universities in Dublin—Trinity College and the Catholic (later, from 1908, National) University—and so it is not surprising that a […]

The dog that didn’t bark: Southern unionism in pre- and post-revolutionary Ireland

Writing in the 1960s, F.S.L. Lyons compared the unionist reaction to the establishment of the Irish Free State to the dog in the night in the Sherlock Holmes story, its […]

The original ‘Tractor Boys’: when a factory team dominated Irish soccer

The popularity and success of Fordson FC signalled a shift in the place of soccer within Irish society. When the Ford Marina plant opened in Cork in 1917, those who […]

The Irish at Gallipoli

So closely do Australians identify with Gallipoli that they often think they were the only ones there, apart from their Anzac partners from New Zealand—and the Turks, of course. Yet […]