ON THIS DAY

BY AODHÁN CREALEY   SEPTEMBER 16/1937 Ten male seasonal potato-gatherers, aged 13–23 years, from Achill Island perished in a fire in Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow. The group had only arrived in […]

BOOKWORM

By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls   During the Six Nations rugby championship we are regularly—even tediously—asked to contemplate battle with our ‘Celtic cousins’, yet a recent genetic study of Britain revealed […]

Conservation works at Cormac’s Chapel

By Michele O’Dea The rocky outcrop that dominates the Cashel skyline has been both a royal fortress and an episcopal seat, distinguished today by the ecclesiastical structures that date from […]

Nano Nagle (and other women) in Hobart Cathedral

By Felix M. Larkin The life and achievements of Nano Nagle (1718–84), outlined by Gillian O’Brien and Jessie Castle in the last issue (HI 26.4, July/August 2018), are memorialised as […]

Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

August 2018 marked the 73rd anniversary of the ushering in of the nuclear age, with the dropping of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (on the 6th) and […]