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THE LETTERS AND CHARTERS OF HENRY II, KING OF ENGLAND 1154–1189, VOLS 1–6

NICHOLAS VINCENT (ed.) Oxford University Press £95 per hardback volume ISBN 9780198738213 Reviewed by Jesse Harrington This new series provides a complete edition of the letters and charters of Henry […]

BOOKWORM

By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls We have mentioned here before the new literary genre of ‘biography of a year’. Now the Royal Irish Academy has got in on the act with […]

IRELAND ON THE BOX

National Photographic Archive, Meeting House Square, Temple Bar https://www.nli.ie/en/national-photographic-archive.aspx By Tony Canavan Ireland on the Box, celebrating six decades of television in Ireland, is a collaboration between RTÉ and the […]

VIOLET GIBSON—THE IRISH WOMAN WHO SHOT MUSSOLINI

Ned Kelly Pictures TG4, 22 Sept. 2021, 8 Jan. 2022 By Donal Fallon In March of last year it was reported that Dublin City Council’s Commemorations Committee had agreed to […]

MÁIRÍN CREGAN’S HUNGER STRIKE

By Fiona Brennan The reappraisal of women’s participation in, and contribution to, the revolutionary period is one of the more enduring legacies of the ‘decade of centenaries’ commemorative programme. In […]

September 12

1980 The Republic of Ireland and the People’s Republic of China exchanged ambassadors for the first time, with John Campbell taking up his post in Peking and Madame Gong Pusheng taking up residence in Dublin.
1969 The Cameron Commission report placed the blame for clashes between loyalists and supporters of NICRA and People’s Democracy over the previous year on the discriminatory policies of the Stormont regime and the RUC.
1912 Father Matthew Russell (78), founder-editor of Catholic Ireland (later Irish Monthly) from 1873, died.
1867 The Irish Constabulary was granted the prefix ‘Royal’—Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC)—in recognition of its role in suppressing the Fenian Rising in March of that year.
1814 Major-General Robert Ross, from Rostrevor, Co. Down, who famously helped himself to President Madison’s dinner before torching the White House some weeks earlier, was killed in a skirmish with American militia at North Point.
1997 President Mary Robinson, approaching the end of her one term in office, resigned to take up the role of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

THE LETTERS AND CHARTERS OF HENRY II, KING OF ENGLAND 1154–1189, VOLS 1–6

BOOKWORM

IRELAND ON THE BOX

VIOLET GIBSON—THE IRISH WOMAN WHO SHOT MUSSOLINI

MÁIRÍN CREGAN’S HUNGER STRIKE

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