The Dillon regimental colour

By Lar Joye The tradition of Irish service with the French army dates from 1615 but the era of the ‘Wild Geese’ regiments is from 1688 to 1791. The Williamite […]

HERSTORY: Ireland’s EPIC women

RTÉ1 3 February–9 March 2020 (six episodes) By Deirdre Foley Herstory, the social enterprise founded to bring women’s stories ‘out of the shadows and into the light’, partnered with RTÉ, […]

‘Cuimnidh ar Luimneach!’—the Irish Brigade at the Battle of Fontenoy

On 11 May 1745—275 years ago—Thomas Lally de Tollendal roused the Irish Brigade with ‘Cuimnidh ar Luimneach agus ar feall na Sasanach!’ (‘Remember Limerick and Saxon perfidy!’) prior to their […]

MUSEUM EYE: Áras Uí Chonghaile–James Connolly Visitor Centre

374 Falls Road, Belfast  Irish Republican History Museum Conway Mill, Belfast By Michael Quigley One recent addition to the renovation of West Belfast is Áras Uí Chonghaile—officially opened in April […]

BOOKWORM

By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls ‘The murder of Ellen O’Sullivan in 1931 was a ghastly affair.’ That is, remarkably, the opening line of Capital punishment in independent Ireland: a social, legal […]