‘WITH AN ARTIST’S EYE: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF MARY ALICE YOUNG OF GLENGORM CASTLE, BALLYMENA’

Mid-Antrim Museum, The Braid, Ballymena, Mon.–Sat. 10am–4pm, until 30 September 2023 Mary Alice Macnaghten was born in 1867, the eldest child of the Rt Hon. Sir Francis Edward Workman-Macnaghten and […]

ON THIS DAY

JULY 02/1850 Sir Robert Peel (62), founder of the Conservative Party and British prime minister, died. In nationalist Ireland Peel would perhaps be best remembered as Daniel O’Connell’s nemesis, the […]

WHAT’S IN A TITLE?

By Denis Fahey When a British monarch dies, an Accession Council, consisting mainly of members of the Privy Council, assembles to proclaim the successor, and so, on 10 September 2022, […]

Commemorating the tricolour

In this issue, and in this year, the 175th since the ‘first’ flying of the Irish tricolour from the Wolfe Tone Confederate Club in Waterford on 7 March 1848, Sylvie […]