Armagh County Museum

The Mall, Armagh, Co. Down https://visitarmagh.com/places-to-explore/armagh-county-museum/ sarah.millsopp@armaghbanbridgecraigavon.gov.uk By Tony Canavan Armagh County Museum is of historical interest in itself, as it was the first county museum to open in Ireland […]

A mid-eighteenth-century mystery rent-book

By Patria McWalter A petite volume recently caused a little puzzlement in Galway County Council Archives. The volume was acquired from the Local Studies section of Galway Public Libraries, but […]

Travel permits 1940–1952

By Fiona Fitzsimons As the US tightened immigration controls in the 1920s and ’30s, free travel continued between Ireland and the United Kingdom. By the 1930s, Britain was the main […]

The Northern Ireland ‘stamp war’, 1971–2

By Matin Modarressi To commemorate the semi-centenary of Northern Ireland, the UK government launched a four-month festival in Belfast’s Botanic Gardens known as ‘Ulster ’71’ and issued a set of […]

‘The Cliona, the Maev and the Macha, the pride of the Irish Navee’

A brief history of the Irish Naval Service. By Daire Brunicardi The naval provisions were an important part of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921. The British Admiralty was forceful in […]