CLONMEL CORPORATION MINUTE BOOK, 1687–1711

By Rachel Granville 6 April 2019, Lot 13—reading the catalogue for an upcoming auction at Whyte’s, I saw with a mixture of excitement and consternation that a minute book for […]

THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE

By Fiona Fitzsimons   MIGRANT RETURN FROM THE US TO IRELAND 1850–1900 Historians have long maintained that one of the ways in which Irish immigrants to the US differed from […]

THE CURIOUS CASE OF REVD JAMES GODFREY MACMANAWAY MBE, CLERGYMAN, SOLDIER AND POLITICIAN

By Aaron Callan Revd James Godfrey MacManaway—or ‘JG’, as he was often known—was born in 1898, the son of the Rt Revd Dr James MacManaway, bishop of Clogher. He was […]

‘A DETERMINED MAN’—MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER, FIONÁN LYNCH

By Lasara Lynch Fionán Lynch was born on 17 March 1889 in Waterville, Co. Kerry. Irish was his first language and he attended Rockwell College and Blackrock College. He planned […]

PAINT AND POLITICS—AN ‘UNHEALTHY INTERSECTION’

The fate of Sir John Lavery’s ‘Irish history paintings’ exhibited at the Irish Race Congress in Paris in January 1922. By Billy Shortall On 28 January 1922, just two weeks […]