BITE-SIZED HISTORY

BY DONAL FALLON A CROKE PARK REVAMP Funding from Fáilte Ireland’s Dublin Surprising Stories scheme has been instrumental in bringing about a significant renovation of Croke Park’s GAA Museum, bringing […]

THE POLISH REFUGEE LOGICIAN—PROFESSOR JAN ŁUKASIEWICZ IN IRELAND, 1946–56

By Jacek J. Jadacki and Eoin Kinsella On 13 November 1946, Minister for Finance Frank Aiken asked the Dáil to sanction an additional grant of £1,000 to the Royal Irish […]

ON THIS DAY

BY AODHÁN CREALEY MAY 09/1908 Luke Livingstone Macassey (c. 65), civil engineer and barrister, died. Macassey is remembered as Belfast’s ‘water hero’, the visionary engineer who brought a reliable supply […]

A MOST PROPER VERDICT—AN EXHIBITION EXPLORING ATTITUDES TO CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY MID- AND EAST ANTRIM

Mid-Antrim Museum, Ballymena, until 5 June 2022Larne Museum, 4 July–26 August 2022enquiries@midandeastantrim.gov.uk By Rachel Newell Lizzie Barr was tried for the murder of Adam Maxwell in front of a full […]

Ukraine—‘history to blame’?

In this centenary year of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses (see ‘Seen on TV’, pp 52–3, and ‘Museum Eye’, pp 56–7), it is tempting to apply the condescending observation […]