New radical voices in the Irish Newspaper Archives

By Donal Fallon The Irish Newspaper Archives has been a vital service for those researching the past for many years now, providing more than 300 years of archive publications on-line. […]

Disestablishment—a triumph of statecraft?

The disestablishment of the Church of Ireland 150 years ago (‘in the nick of time’, according to Kenneth Milne, pp 24–7) was a triumph of British statecraft in Ireland. Prime […]

EVENTS

September 02 Mon 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Square South, Dublin 2. Undimmed by the shadow of Rome? Ireland in a European world (100 BC–AD 500), […]

The Irish Army and the Emergency

By Lar Joye This September marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Second World War and the passing of the Emergency Powers Act 1939 by Dáil Éireann. Between […]

‘An immortal smile of victory’

Albert Power’s bust of Terence MacSwiney (1879–1920). By Síghle Bhreathnach-Lynch On 26 October 1920 the Freeman’s Journal devoted its front page to the Sinn Féin lord mayor of Cork, Terence […]