Pantomime

By Laura Marriott The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a golden age for English theatre, with writers such as Shakespeare and Marlowe drawing in the London crowds. Soon cities and […]

The ‘poor scholar’ in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writing

By Ian Campbell Ross and Anne Markey When Benedict Kiely published his biography of the Tyrone-born novelist and short-story writer William Carleton, he called it Poor scholar (1947). The title […]

Ireland and the ‘£20 million swindle’

Irish names in the Legacy of British Slave-ownership (LBS) database (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/). By Sylvie Kleinman ‘I do not envy his father his £79,000’, said Daniel O’Connell of the young William Gladstone […]

The Templars and the mysterious Holy Rood of Ballinrobe

By Michael Brabazon In 1974, a young man by the name of Mike Brennan was exploring a dilapidated, derelict house in Swinford, Co. Mayo. He made his way up the […]

Áras na hOidhreachta

Church Lane, Kilkenny   By Colm Murray The premises now occupied by the Heritage Council stand on a historic site. The former bishop’s palace in Kilkenny forms part of the […]