The Ulster Volunteer Force in police uniform

The creation of the Ulster Special Constabulary, 1920 By Seán Bernard Newman “As an official and authorised force, the USC gave Craig the means to defend the border, consolidate Ulster […]

Scots’ Church

Athy Road, Carlow, Co. Carlow By Simonas Vilcauskis The history of Presbyterianism in Carlow can be traced back to 1655, when Roger Muckle was recorded as an ‘Independent minister under […]

Dr Richard Blennerhassett and the Wends of Texas

By Brian MacMahon “All available evidence suggests that he was a conscientious doctor and humanitarian who maintained high standards of care and hygiene.” Serbin, a hamlet in Lee County, Texas, […]

Plus ça change?

Epidemic disease and social reaction By Laurence Geary “Fear, mass panic and hysteria were features of all serious outbreaks of fever, cholera and other communicable diseases in early modern and […]

The Battle of Culloden

The Irish connection By Stephen McGarry “Charles Edward Stuart, grandson of the deposed King James II, believed that his time had come to restore the deposed Catholic dynasty to the […]