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JONAS OF BOBBIO AND THE LEGACY OF COLUMBANUS: Sanctity and Community in the Seventh Century

ALEXANDER O’HARA Oxford University Press €62.65 ISBN 9780190858001 Reviewed by Meredith Cutrer Meredith Cutrer is a Ph.D student in University College Dublin’s School of History. Whether one loves him or […]

MARRIAGE IN IRELAND 1660–1925

MARIA LUDDY and MARY O’DOWD Cambridge University Press £74.99 ISBN 9781108731904 Reviewed by Mary Kenny It was said that a traditional Irish marriage proposal was ‘Would you like to be […]

BOOKWORM

By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls During the assault, he first struck his father with a hatchet. He then grabbed a flat chisel from the workbench and drove it into […]

Cork Public Museum—a virtual tour

corkcity.ie/en/cork-public-museum By Tony Canavan The introduction of Level 5 Covid restrictions has resulted in the closure of museums and galleries. For many that has meant a reliance on their online […]

Bloody Sunday 1920

RTÉ1 15 November 2020 Produced by Colm O’Callaghan By Donal Fallon It is the familiar voice of Paul Rouse that opens Bloody Sunday 1920, RTÉ’s documentary exploring the events of […]

April 27

1822 Ulysses Simpson Grant, general in the Union army and 18th president of the United States (1869–77), born in Ohio.
1521 Ferdinand Magellan (c. 40), Portuguese navigator, was killed by natives on the island of Mactan in the Philippines during the first circumnavigation of the Earth.
1920 The IRA attacked the RIC station at Ballylanders, Co. Limerick. The Black and Tans terrorised Limerick city the following day.
1967 The Abortion Act, making abortion legal up to 28 weeks’ gestation, came into effect in the UK, with the exception of Northern Ireland.
1953 Maud Gonne MacBride, revolutionary and iconic figure in nationalist mythology, died.
1916 Outside Hulluch, north of Loos in northern France, the 16th (Irish) Division suffered one of the heaviest gas attacks of the First World War; 538 men died and a further 1,590 were injured.
1923 Eamon de Valera offered terms for negotiation to end the Civil War, which were rejected by the Free State government.
1953 Maud Gonne (86), iconic figure in Irish nationalism, died.

JONAS OF BOBBIO AND THE LEGACY OF COLUMBANUS: Sanctity and Community in the Seventh Century

MARRIAGE IN IRELAND 1660–1925

BOOKWORM

Cork Public Museum—a virtual tour

Bloody Sunday 1920

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