MAY 01 Tues 1pm Irish Georgian Society, 58 South William St., Dublin 2. Historic doors and staircases: their history and conservation, Peter Clarke. Adm. €15. 01 Tues 8pm Kilmacanogue History […]
Read More →By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr On 18 April 1918 the Hon. Laurence O’Neill, lord mayor of Dublin, convened a national conference in the Mansion House. All sections of ‘nationalist’ opinion […]
Read More →BY AODHÁN CREALEY MAY 10/1863 Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson (39), Confederate general in the American Civil War (1860–5), died from wounds inflicted by his own troops when they mistakenly shot […]
Read More →By Fergal Browne This year marks the 220th anniversary of the 1798 United Irishmen’s Rebellion and the Battles of Monasterevin and Prosperous. On the weekend of 19–20 May 2018, re-enactments […]
Read More →It is deeply ironic that in this ‘decade of commemorations’ the marking of a more recent one—the twentieth anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement—has been relatively muted. This is in […]
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