By Niall Whelehan In 1888 the International Council of Women was founded at a conference in Washington DC that brought together over 50 organisations from nine countries. Present were the […]
Read More →By Joe Regan In 1817 Hugh Quin bade farewell to Portaferry, Co. Down, and emigrated to the US, sailing from Liverpool to New Orleans. The fleet of ships that conveyed […]
Read More →By Hiram Morgan The west coast of Ireland in the Elizabethan period was a place of refuge for English explorers, colonisers and privateers in distress after Atlantic voyages. Aiming to […]
Read More →The ongoing saga of the institution’s struggle to reform its membership. By Clare O’Halloran The Royal Irish Academy (RIA) describes itself on its website as ‘an independent, all-island learned society […]
Read More →Sir,—The short article by Lar Joye on ‘British Army First World War campaign medals’ (HI 29.6, Nov./Dec. 2021) was somewhat interesting. Readers may be interested to know that the British […]
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