HOW DID THE IRISH IN FRANCE FARE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, A PERIOD MARKED BY THE THREAT OF INTERNMENT AND SEVERE FINANCIAL PRESSURES? WHAT WAS THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARD THE […]
Read More →Castle Street, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford By Sarah Buckley A meeting on 4 February 1891 set in motion plans for an important public building in Enniscorthy, one intended for the cultural […]
Read More →THE SCANDAL OF MARGARET AND MARY BRIGID PEARSE By Teresa and Mary Louise O’Donnell Margaret Pearse, mother of Patrick and Willie, died on 22 April 1932 from a bacterial infection […]
Read More →Quaker records in Ireland By Fiona Fitzsimons In the 1650s and ’60s the Quakers, emerging as one of the more radical Dissenter groups, began to migrate to Ireland. They sought […]
Read More →PLATON MIKHAILOVICH KERZHENTSEV, THE FIRST SOVIET HISTORIAN OF IRELAND By Maurice J. Casey In 1914 the Irish poet Padraic Colum and his wife Mary arrived in New York. Initially, they […]
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