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‘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 […]

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 […]

May 15

1971 Sir Tyrone Guthrie (71), theatre producer, died at his home, Annaghmakerrig House, Newbliss, Co. Monaghan, now a retreat for artists and writers.
2007 Bertie Ahern became the first taoiseach to address the Westminster parliament.
1948 The British mandate in Palestine expired. The state of Israel came into being.
1910 The Association of United Irishwomen, renamed the Irish Countrywomen’s Association (ICA) in 1934, which sought to provide rural women with a social outlet and educational opportunities, was founded by Anita Lett in Ballindara, Co. Wexford.
1847 Daniel O’Connell, ‘the Liberator’, died in Genoa.

May 18

1922 During continued violence in Belfast, three Catholics were shot dead and three Protestants the following day. Altogether 44 Catholics and 22 Protestants met with violent deaths in the city that month.
1939 The first aircraft landed on the new airfield at Rineanna, Co. Clare, later known as Shannon Airport.
1960 Sir Robert McCarrison, County Armagh-born medical scientist and world authority on the nature of deficiency diseases such as goitre and cretinism, died.
1928 Standish James O’Grady (81), historian and novelist, widely regarded as ‘the father of the Irish literary revival’, died.

‘SOMEWHERE ENTIRELY DIFFERENT’— INISHEER IN THE 1960s

JACK COMER’S TINTOWN AUTOGRAPH BOOK

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

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

GYPSIES IN IRELAND—A HIBERNO-ROMANY COMMUNITY

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