DESCENDANCY: IRISH PROTESTANT HISTORIES SINCE 1795

  Reviewed by John M. Regan Borrowing Tom Bartlett’s coinage, David Fitzpatrick defines ‘descendancy’ as the ‘states of mind engendered by a shared awareness of the declining power and influence […]

World War: Ireland 1914–1918—exploring the Irish experience

  By Tony Canavan This exhibition takes us to the heart of the Irish experience in World War I. Based around information panels and interactive screens, there are also artefacts […]

Gallipoli: Ireland’s forgotten heroes; Lusitania: 18 minutes that changed the world

Gallipoli: Ireland’s forgotten heroes RTÉ1, 21 April Lusitania: 18 minutes that changed the world RTÉ1, 7 May By John Gibney In specifically Irish terms, there are three major centenaries being […]

Thatched house, Kilmuckridge, Co. Wexford

By Claire Breen and John O’Neill  Thatched houses in Ireland typically fall into two broad categories. Direct-entry houses, where the door opens directly into the main living space, abound in […]

RMS Leinster

Sir,—Lar Joye, in his item on the Lusitania (Artefacts, HI 23.3, May/ June 2015), refers to the torpedoing of the RMS Leinster in 1918 ‘with the loss of 178 lives’. […]