Peripatetic Professor

GH:    Tell us about your background. JL:    I was born in Tralee, County Kerry, in 1942. I spent my first nine years in the tranquil environment of Castlegregory, a village […]

Clann na Talmhan: Ireland’s last farmers’ party

The absence of a strong tradition of farmer parties in a country with a very substantial proportion of the workforce engaged in agriculture has long been a source of puzzlement […]

‘McCafferty’…the story of the song

When I was scarcely eighteen years of age, Into the army I did engage, I left my house with full intent To join the forty-second [sic] regiment; To Fulwood barracks […]

Prison Reform in Ireland in the Age of Enlightenment

Of the challenges they faced they found prison reform to be among the greatest. There was the popular view that people in jail were there because they were wicked and, […]

Faith & Fatherland in sixteenth-century Ireland

The rationale behind the Tudor attempt to ‘reform’ the Irish polity and the Gaelic section of its population was provided by humanists variously inspired by classical ideas of government, civility […]