MUSEUM EYE: Garda Museum

Garda Museum Dublin Castle museum@garda.ie, +353 (0)1 6669998 By Tony Canavan The Garda Museum is located in refurbished vaults in the Treasury Building of the Dublin Castle complex. It houses […]

Col. James Fitzmaurice—Ireland’s greatest aviator

The Irishman who made the first successful east–west flight across the Atlantic in April 1928. By Teddy Fennelly The First World War hastened the advancement of aircraft technology. From its […]

‘Miss, you’ve forgotten to lock us in!’

Mary Size (1883–1959)—forgotten Irish pioneer of British penal reform. By Ruairí Ó hAodha Myra Hindley claimed that she was glad that it was dark when she was driven through the […]

BOOKWORM

By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls About halfway through his superb new biography of St Patrick, Roy Flechner, while referring to an earlier standard work, writes: ‘The present study, it is hoped, […]

BODENSTOWN REVISITED: the grave of Theobald Wolfe Tone, its monuments and its pilgrimages

C.J. WOODS Four Courts Press €45 ISBN 9781846827389 Reviewed by Aengus Ó Snodaigh Aengus Ó Snodaigh is an author, historian and Sinn Féin TD for Dublin South-Central. C.J. Woods’s imposition […]