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BITE-SIZED HISTORY

BY TONY CANAVAN A SMASHING YEAR Interest in RMS Titanic shows no sign of waning, if Titanic Belfast, the visitor centre commemorating the building of the fabled ship, is anything […]

COUNTDOWN TO 2016: Emmet Dalton and Tom Kettle at the Battle of the Somme

By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr A member of Dublin’s middle class, Tom Kettle joined the Irish Volunteers at their inception in 1913. Previously, he had been a Home Ruler and […]

JULY 02 Sat 11am Chester Beatty Library atrium, Dublin Castle. Intercultural tour with community ambassador: Mandarin language tour, Vicky Wang. 03 Sun 12 noon County Kildare Archaeological Society, Celbridge. Visit […]

THE BIG BOOK: The Princeton history of modern Ireland

RICHARD BOURKE and IAN McBRIDE (eds) Princeton University Press £34.95 ISBN 9780691154060 Reviewed by: James Smyth One contributor to this volume, Matthew Kelly, identifies ‘the quasi-military character of the RIC’ […]

Operation Demetrius and its aftermath: a new history of the use of internment without trial in Northern Ireland 1971–75

MARTIN J. McCLEERY Manchester University Press £70 ISBN 9780719096303 Reviewed by: Clifford Peeples WhenGeorge Santayana made his observation that ‘history is always written wrong, and so always needs to be […]

September 12

1980 The Republic of Ireland and the People’s Republic of China exchanged ambassadors for the first time, with John Campbell taking up his post in Peking and Madame Gong Pusheng taking up residence in Dublin.
1969 The Cameron Commission report placed the blame for clashes between loyalists and supporters of NICRA and People’s Democracy over the previous year on the discriminatory policies of the Stormont regime and the RUC.
1912 Father Matthew Russell (78), founder-editor of Catholic Ireland (later Irish Monthly) from 1873, died.
1867 The Irish Constabulary was granted the prefix ‘Royal’—Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC)—in recognition of its role in suppressing the Fenian Rising in March of that year.
1814 Major-General Robert Ross, from Rostrevor, Co. Down, who famously helped himself to President Madison’s dinner before torching the White House some weeks earlier, was killed in a skirmish with American militia at North Point.
1997 President Mary Robinson, approaching the end of her one term in office, resigned to take up the role of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

COUNTDOWN TO 2016: Emmet Dalton and Tom Kettle at the Battle of the Somme

Events

THE BIG BOOK: The Princeton history of modern Ireland

Operation Demetrius and its aftermath: a new history of the use of internment without trial in Northern Ireland 1971–75

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