By Áine Hensey In Freedom and the Fifth Commandment: Catholic priests and political violence in Ireland, 1920–21, Brian Heffernan describes the considerable diversity of opinion that existed among Irish Catholic […]
Read More →By Dean Jobb They wore workmen’s clothing, making them indistinguishable from the thousands of Irish newcomers in search of jobs in Nova Scotia’s mines or building its railways. James Holmes, […]
Read More →By Arnold Horner Between the 1880s and the early years of the twentieth century, in one of the least politically charged transformations of the period, Ireland’s first cycling revolution brought, […]
Read More →By Noel O’Connell Francis Maginn was the foremost pioneer of the deaf community in Ireland and Britain during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. No one enjoyed such prominence, […]
Read More →By Damian Murphy The neo-Palladian Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon, was built c. 1730 for John French (d. 1734) or his son Arthur (d. 1761), its design attributable to Richard Castle (d. […]
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