By Daire Brunicardi The naval dockyard that the government of the Irish Free State took over in 1923 was an extensive site of docks, workshops, stores, accommodation, residences, oil storage […]
Read More →By Thomas P. Power Predictions about the end of the world became common in the wake of the French Revolution. In Ireland such predictions took different forms. Highly influential was […]
Read More →By Ruairí Nolan One of the most extensive collections in the Russell Library at NUI Maynooth is that of material related to the late eighteenth century and the 1798 Rebellion, […]
Read More →By Patrick J. Ryan Reprobate, rogue, scoundrel, contentious, devious and greedy are just some of the many epithets used to describe Miler Magrath, archbishop of Cashel from 1571 to 1622. […]
Read More →By Stephen Hewer By 1270 the English had been colonising parts of Ireland for over 100 years. Many Gaelic realms or tuatha were destroyed, but others, through geographic fortune (mountainous […]
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