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 […]
Read More →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. […]
Read More →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 […]
Read More →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 […]
Read More →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 […]
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