The many parts of Daisy Bannard Cogley

By Elaine Sisson and Brian Trench When Eamon de Valera was released from prison in July 1924, among the select few invited to a welcome party at a private house […]

Who speaks for Ulster? Similarities between elections in Derry 1913 and Northern Ireland 2022

By M.C. Rast The May 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly elections were historic. Sinn Féin became the largest bloc with twenty-seven seats and the cross-community Alliance Party third largest with seventeen. […]

Murder at the Broadstone terminus

By Brian Griffin Thursday 13 November 1856 appeared to be just a day like any other at the Midland Great Western Railway Company’s Broadstone terminus in Dublin. The company’s cashier, […]

Lionel de Rothschild and the Great Irish Famine

The origins of the British Relief Association By Norbert Götz                                       The obituary of Lionel de Rothschild (1808–1879) in The Times of London failed to point out the active part the […]

A precious bodily fluid—blood, the Irish connection

By Shaun R. McCann Blood is indeed a precious fluid that has intrigued man for millennia. Initially believed to contain the soul, memory or bravery, its place in Christian religion […]