BY AODHÁN Ó RAGHAILLIGH JULY 10/1992 Albert Pierrepoint (87), hangman, died.During much of the last century Pierrepoint was a household name on these islands. In fact, there were three Pierrepoints. […]
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Read More →By Sylvie Kleinman ‘For the first time in its life, the Castle was going to be popular’, was how Ishbel Gordon, Lady Aberdeen, wife of one of the last viceroys […]
Read More →By Tony Canavan The 1916 Roll of Honour on-line The 1916 Roll of Honour was created on the twentieth anniversary as the official state listing of the men and women […]
Read More →Now that the centenary commemorations of the 1916 Rising are receding in the rear-view mirror, what are we to make of the experience? In spite of the inauspicious launch of […]
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