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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SANITARY OFFICER

By Joanne Rothwell Sanitary officers were among the frontline workers of the nineteenth century and were key in preventing the spread of infectious diseases and improving the health and welfare […]

BRIAN NELSON—THE RISE AND FALL OF A DOUBLE AGENT

By Ian S. Wood On 5 February 1992 five Catholics, one of them a boy aged fifteen, were murdered in Sean Graham’s betting shop on Belfast’s Lower Ormeau Road. The […]

COLLECTING THE 21ST CENTURY— THE ANGLO IRISH BANK SIGN

By Lar Joye Museums are often seen as exhibiting items from another age and as having nothing to tell us about the contemporary world. Museums, however, are now collecting more […]

73 ECCLES STREET—RECREATING A DUBLIN TENEMENT 1915–20

By Ken Boyle A worn old rent book, rescued from a skip, was to provide the opportunity and inspiration for this investigation. The compact book contained the names of the […]

THOMAS KEATING— A CIVIL WAR KILLING

By David Prendergast The 10th of April 1923 brought a smattering of IRA leaders and foot-soldiers into the foothills of the Knockmealdowns. After the Executive was surprised and hunted by […]

April 27

1822 Ulysses Simpson Grant, general in the Union army and 18th president of the United States (1869–77), born in Ohio.
1521 Ferdinand Magellan (c. 40), Portuguese navigator, was killed by natives on the island of Mactan in the Philippines during the first circumnavigation of the Earth.
1920 The IRA attacked the RIC station at Ballylanders, Co. Limerick. The Black and Tans terrorised Limerick city the following day.
1967 The Abortion Act, making abortion legal up to 28 weeks’ gestation, came into effect in the UK, with the exception of Northern Ireland.
1953 Maud Gonne MacBride, revolutionary and iconic figure in nationalist mythology, died.
1916 Outside Hulluch, north of Loos in northern France, the 16th (Irish) Division suffered one of the heaviest gas attacks of the First World War; 538 men died and a further 1,590 were injured.
1923 Eamon de Valera offered terms for negotiation to end the Civil War, which were rejected by the Free State government.
1953 Maud Gonne (86), iconic figure in Irish nationalism, died.

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SANITARY OFFICER

BRIAN NELSON—THE RISE AND FALL OF A DOUBLE AGENT

COLLECTING THE 21ST CENTURY— THE ANGLO IRISH BANK SIGN

73 ECCLES STREET—RECREATING A DUBLIN TENEMENT 1915–20

THOMAS KEATING— A CIVIL WAR KILLING

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