BOOKWORM

Joe Culley @TheRealCulls Like most of us, I suspect, you think of the Irish Sea as ‘ours’. After all, it’s named for us. We happily, unconsciously, ignore the fact that […]

HEARTS NE’ER WAVER’: THE WOMEN PRISONERS OF THE IRISH CIVIL WAR AND VOICES

Kilmainham Gaol By Donal Fallon On a recent (and regular) walking tour of the Kilmainham and Inchicore area delivered by historian Fergus Whelan from nearby Richmond Barracks, he joked of […]

The Agreement and Lyra

THE AGREEMENT (2 parts) RTÉ1, 3 and 4 April 2023 LYRA Channel 4, 15 April 2023 By Sylvie Kleinman The Agreement, a richly detailed documentary, minutely deconstructs in its first […]

CUMANN NA nGAEDHEAL WINS THE 1923 GENERAL ELECTION

By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr The 1923 general election was held on Monday 27 August and was the first since the adoption of the Irish Free State constitution on 6 […]

MARY LEADBEATER OF BALLITORE

By Karel Kiely Local authority archives consist of the records of local government, including those of the various bodies which existed prior to the establishment of the present county councils […]