‘ALL TO ONE SIDE LIKE MOYNALTY’—THE FARRELL ESTATE MAPS

By Patricia Fallon ‘All to one side like Moynalty’ is a well-known phrase in Meath, referring to the village of Moynalty, redeveloped in the early nineteenth century, under the ownership […]

KINDRED LINES: ‘HOME CHILDREN’—AN IRISH PERSPECTIVE, 1860s TO 1922

By Fiona Fitzsimons Between the 1860s and the 1930s, over 100,000 child and juvenile emigrants were sent from the UK to Canada, Australia and New Zealand as part of the […]

‘SOMEWHERE ENTIRELY DIFFERENT’— INISHEER IN THE 1960s

By Dennis Kennedy A photo recently in the Irish Times of the MV Naomh Eanna languishing on her side in Dublin’s Grand Canal Basin evoked memories of my first visit […]

JACK COMER’S TINTOWN AUTOGRAPH BOOK

By Úna Kavanagh Autograph books were usually approximately the size of a Penguin paperback, with blank pages used to collect and exchange autographs and short written personal contributions. Like a […]

‘BORN FROM FIRE’—THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE OF NORTHERN IRELAND AT 100

By Tim Murtagh and Stephen Scarth This article, the fourth in a series arising from the ‘Beyond 2022’ project, marks the centenary of the birth of the PRONI in the […]