BOOKWORM

By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls In the cover story of our previous edition, Laurence Geary explained that vaccination in Ireland is often said to have begun in Cork in 1800 when […]

CHARLES FORT

Kinsale, Co. Cork (021) 477 2263 charlesfort@opw.ie By Tony Canavan On a recent break in Kinsale, I took the opportunity to visit Charles Fort, which, along with the smaller James […]

An tSlí

RTÉ1, 26 October and 2 November 2021 By Donal Fallon In the ever-growing field of Museum Studies, much is written on outreach and the importance of museums taking their knowledge […]

CLONMEL CORPORATION MINUTE BOOK, 1687–1711

By Rachel Granville 6 April 2019, Lot 13—reading the catalogue for an upcoming auction at Whyte’s, I saw with a mixture of excitement and consternation that a minute book for […]

THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE

By Fiona Fitzsimons   MIGRANT RETURN FROM THE US TO IRELAND 1850–1900 Historians have long maintained that one of the ways in which Irish immigrants to the US differed from […]