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MAGAZINE FORT TO BE RESTORED

By Aengus Ó Snodaigh Like many cooped up at home during the early days of this Covid-19 pandemic, I would venture, when allowed, to the Phoenix Park to stretch my […]

By Helen Pierce Each January, the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) curates a month-long, free-of-charge exhibition based around items from the Vaughan bequest of watercolours by J.M.W. Turner. Drawings by […]

1922, 1972, 2022

In this issue Jack Hepworth (‘The “good Old IRA”—remembering republican veterans after 1969’, pp 40–3) reminds us that in 1972 there were some 32,000 living republican veterans of the War […]

April 26

1937 During the Spanish Civil War, the Basque town of Guernica, a bastion of Republican resistance, was pounded by the German Condor Legion with high-explosive bombs and at least 3,000 incendiary bombs. Over 1,600 people were killed in the subsequent firestorm.
1900 Queen Victoria concluded her final, three-week visit to Ireland, the purpose of which was to encourage Irishmen to join the British Army and fight in the Second Boer War. Nationalist opposition to her visit was led by Arthur Griffith and his newspaper, The United Irishman.
1974 Nineteen Old Masters paintings were stolen from the Blessington, Co. Wicklow, home of Sir Alfred and Lady Beit by a Provisional IRA gang which included Dr Rose Dugdale.

MAGAZINE FORT TO BE RESTORED

FRANCIS PLACE IN IRELAND

1922, 1972, 2022

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