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The Chief Governors: the rise and fall of reform government in Tudor Ireland, 1536-1588

The Chief Governors: the rise and fall of reform government in Tudor Ireland, 1536-1588 Ciaran Brady (Cambridge University Press, £35) Anglicising the government of Ireland: the Irish privy council and […]

Architecture as evidence

Aficionados of the seventeenth century are alerted to the new OpenUniversity series Princes and Peoples on BBC 2 on Mondays at 12midnight. It will examine buildings in their historical context,including […]

Researchers turn up Easter Rising papers

British War Office files on the 1916 Rising—which were marked secret for 100 years—have been discovered by researchers examining records on courts martial from both world wars. The files contain […]

Celtic Dimensions of the British Civil Wars

The University of Strathclyde hosted the second conference of theResearch Centre in Scottish History on 5 April 1995. The organiser,John Young, brought together a new generation of historians engaged inoriginal […]

Soar Valley success

The 12th Annual National Conference on Irish Dimensions in BritishEducation, hosted by the Irish Studies Workshop at Soar ValleyCommunity College, Leicester, took place on 8 April 1995 and lived upto […]

September 11

1968 Denis McCullough (85), co-founder of the Dungannon Clubs (1905) with Bulmer Hobson and director of the IRB in Ulster at the time of the Easter Rising, died.
1954 Robert Smyllie, influential editor of the Irish Times, died.
1922 The Local Government Act (NI) abolished PR for local elections and required a declaration of allegiance from persons elected to or working for local authorities.
1910 Robert Loraine, British actor and Boer War veteran, in his Henry Farman biplane became the first man to fly across the Irish Sea.
1741 Arthur Young, English agricultural theorist and traveller, and author of the acclaimed A Tour of Ireland (1780), born.
1922 The Local Government Act (NI) abolished PR, introduced by Westminster three years earlier as a ‘minority safeguard’, for local elections and required a declaration of allegiance from persons elected to or working for local authorities.
1954 Robert ‘Bertie’ Smylie (61), editor of the Irish Times since 1934, who transformed the paper from an Ascendancy viewpoint to one with a non-partisan profile, died.

The Chief Governors: the rise and fall of reform government in Tudor Ireland, 1536-1588

Architecture as evidence

Researchers turn up Easter Rising papers

Celtic Dimensions of the British Civil Wars

Soar Valley success

Personal Histories

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September 11