Paul Strzelecki—a forgotten Polish hero of the Great Irish Famine

Exhibition, 9 May–30 August 2019, RIA, Dawson Street, Dublin. Amidst the catastrophic horrors of Ireland’s Great Famine of 1845–50 a few bright examples of selfless humanitarianism shine through. One of […]

Anonymous Was A Woman

Exhibition, Linen Hall Library, Belfast, until 31 May 2019, www.makingthefuture.eu. For most of history, Anonymous was a woman’, wrote Virginia Woolf in an essay titled A room of one’s own. […]

850 years

Welcome to this special issue marking the 850th anniversary of the English invasion. Yes, English, as persuasively argued (pp 16–17) by Seán Duffy, who, along with his Trinity College colleague […]

‘The last of the shanachies’ and the professor

Thady McMahon, Eugene O’Curry and singing beggars in mid-nineteenth-century Dublin. By Ciarán McCabe In November 1852 a 60-year-old blind beggar named Thady McMahon was arrested and detained in Dublin city […]

SEEN ON TV: Election ’18

Loose Horse Productions RTÉ 1, 14 December 2018 By John Gibney On 14 December 1918 a UK-wide general election took place in Britain and Ireland, and on 14 December 2018 […]