What sort of world did the ending of the First World War bring into being? By John Horne At 11am on 11 November 1918, the guns fell silent along the […]

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By Fiona Fitzsimons The Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878, gave power to local authorities to establish mortuaries, and authorised any justice to order the removal of dead bodies to a […]

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By high summer of 1918, German forces on the Western Front had been fought to a standstill. Having expended their reserves in a series of offensives collectively known as the […]

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In R.M. Fox’s collection of biographical essays Rebel Irishwomen (1935), included alongside Maud Gonne MacBride, Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington and Constance Markievicz is an obscure London-born nurse, Dora Maguire. Who was she […]

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By Rachel McKenna The lush landscape of County Offaly is dotted and studded with follies, those curios described by Primrose Wilson, chairman of the Follies Trust, as ‘statements of style […]

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