De Valera, censorship and Family and community in Ireland

The Harvard Irish Study, 1930–6. By Anne Byrne and Eoin O’Sullivan Family and community in Ireland, first published in 1940 by Conrad Maynadier Arensberg and Solon Toothaker Kimball, is one […]

Churching

By Fiona Fitzsimons The medieval church practised ‘churching’ as a rite of purification and thanksgiving for the safe delivery of a woman after the birth of her child. It marked the […]

The Irish Revolution and the Basque nationalist movement, 1916–23

The 1916 Easter Rising proved to be the spark that ignited the tensions within Basque nationalism. By Kyle McCreanor Historians have recently taken a greater interest in the global context […]

British political theatre in Ireland: Winston Churchill and Belfast, 1912

A microcosm of the third Home Rule crisis. By M.C. Rast In several important ways, the third Home Rule crisis had little to do with Ireland; it was as much […]

MUSEUM EYE: Down County Museum

Down County Museum The Mall, Downpatrick, Co. Down mail@downcountymuseum.com downcountymuseum.com By Tony Canavan Down County Museum occupies a building of historical significance. It was originally the county gaol, which opened […]