By Brian Smyth The National Committee for Commemorative Plaques in Science and Technology (NCCPST) was formed in 1997 to celebrate achievements across science, technology, engineering and mathematics in Ireland. Over […]
Read More →BY AODHÁN CREALEY JANUARY 28/1547 King Henry VIII (55) died. Popularly remembered for his six marriages and his despotism (it’s estimated that he judicially murdered some 1,500 of his subjects, […]
Read More →By Brian Trench Just over 130 years ago, on 25 November 1892, Douglas Hyde delivered a lecture that was a landmark in the Irish Revival. ‘The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland’, […]
Read More →There are certain resonances between past and present in the current issue (30 years on from our first, in spring 1993, incidentally). Thomas P. Power’s article on the Pastorini prophecy […]
Read More →Athy, Co. Kildare By Damian Murphy The skyline of Athy was transformed in the early 1960s when both of its nineteenth-century Catholic churches, St Michael’s and St Dominic’s, were replaced. […]
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