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 […]

Byrne-Perry Summer School

This summer Gorey, County Wexford, will host the first Byrne-PerrySummer School from Friday 30 June to Sunday 2 July. The school, namedafter the United Irishmen Myles Byrne and Anthony Perry, […]

TCD buys first book printed in Irish

Trinity College Library, Dublin, yesterday acquired the first book printed in Irish. This book, Abidil gaoidheilge & caiticiosma (ABC &catechism), printed in 1571, is only the sixth item known to […]

Irish Lives in the New DNB

A new edition of the Dictionary of National Biography is in preparationat the University of Oxford with general support from the BritishAcademy and Oxford University Press. All entries in the […]