LAURENCE GINNELL (1852–1923), ONE OF THE TRULY GLOBAL FIGURES OF THE IRISH REVOLUTION

By Paul Hughes From the meadows of the midlands to the corridors of Westminster, and from the gridded streets of Chicago to the Argentine pampas, few prominent figures of the […]

GYPSIES IN IRELAND—A HIBERNO-ROMANY COMMUNITY

By David Joyce ‘Travelling community’ is used as an all-encompassing term in Ireland to describe a traditionally nomadic community that has a significant degree of internal diversity. Encompassed within the […]

ERASMUS SMITH HOUSE COLLEGE ROAD, ENNIS, CO. CLARE

By Damian Murphy Erasmus Smith (1611–91) was granted extensive lands under the Settlement of Ireland Act of 1652 as repayment for his support for the suppression of the 1641 Rebellion, […]

THE 1755 LISBON EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI AND THE IMPACT ON THE COAST OF CORK

By Michael Gibbons The recently published Coastal atlas of Ireland suggests that the Lisbon earthquake and subsequent tsunami on All Saints’ Day, 1 November 1755, caused significant changes to the […]

‘HUGON COME ERINDWARDS’—JAMES JOYCE’S HUGUENOTS

By Martin Green In Finnegans Wake, the main ingredient in Shaun’s ‘stockpot dinner’ is a ‘round steak, very rare, Blong’s best from Portarlington’s Butchery’. The reference is to a butchery […]