CARTOGRAPHY: ‘Ireland’s true survay’, 1630s

A journeyman sea captain made exceptional picture-charts of Irish harbours almost 400 years ago.   By Arnold Horner A little-noticed survey of many of Ireland’s harbours, made in the 1630s, […]

Sources: ‘We hope that the tempest is soon calmed’—early Irish Jesuits

A new calendar of documents, commissioned by the Irish Jesuits for the bicentenary of the order’s restoration in 1814. By Vera Moynes An anti-clerical edict proclaimed by the president and […]

Events

SEPTEMBER 03 Mon 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Sq. S. Music, dancing and country house culture in mid-nineteenth century Ireland, Dr Mullaney-Dignam. 11 Tues 8pm Skerries […]

ARTEFACTS: Diving-bell, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay

The object that became a museum.   By Jim Kelleher   This 90-ton diving-bell, built in 1866 in Drogheda, was designed by Bindon Blood Stoney, who was a port engineer […]

100 YEARS AGO: RMS Leinster sunk

By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr In 1895 the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company ordered four steamers for Royal Mail service, named for the four provinces of Ireland: RMS Leinster, […]