CROAGH PATRICK ORATORY CHALICE AND CIBORIUM

By Oliver Doyle Croagh Patrick, a 2,510ft-high conical mountain 9.5km from Westport, has been a place of pilgrimage for centuries. During the Celtic Revival in the early 1900s, the annual […]

‘A BUZZ IN THE AIR’—FIRST FLIGHTS TO IRELAND, APRIL 1912

By Peadar Slattery Ask anyone in Ireland to recall an event in 1912 and they may well mention the sinking of the White Star liner Titanic on 14–15 April, or […]

THE PALATINES IN IRELAND

By Fiona Fitzsimons In May 1709, c. 13,000 Palatine refugees arrived in England. They were artisans and small farmers from the regions of Baden, Hesse and the Rheinish Palatinate (present-day […]

‘YEARS OF STORM AND CHARM’— W.P. RYAN AND THE IRISH NATION

By Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh Eighty-one years after his death, William Patrick Ryan is still best remembered for editing a newspaper that was denounced by the head of the Catholic Church […]

PAT AND THE LAND WAR

By Michael de Nie The Irish Land War (1879–82) was an economic, political and social conflict contested on multiple fronts. One of these fronts was the popular press, as newspapers […]