Ulster Museum, Belfast By Donal Fallon Beyond being physical spaces, our museums and galleries also exist in the digital realm. Few have embraced the internet and its possibilities as well as the Ulster Museum. A visitor to their website will encounter the oral history project Voices of ’74, interviewing those who lived through that turbulent … Read more
RTÉ2, 1 November 2024 and RTÉ Player By Sylvie Kleinman ‘Let’s make a documentary about it’: the popular podcaster and open discusser of his autism Blindboy Boatclub has co-written and presents The Land of Slaves and Scholars. Despite having no god or religion, he is fascinated by the Early Christian Irish writing tradition—literally, as we … Read more
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr On 2 April 1925 the Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) merged with An Garda Síochána (originally the Civic Guard) under a new act. The DMP was established under the Dublin Police Act (1836) as an unarmed, uniformed force of 1,000 day and night constables, along the lines of the London Metropolitan … Read more
By Patricia Fallon Within the Kells Urban District Council collection is a Free Milk Scheme register dating from March 1935, detailing the administration of a milk grant. It lists the families in the area that were eligible for the scheme and the quantity of milk they received per week. The register is a record of … Read more
By Anna Rose Garvey In this issue, we take a closer look at two films from a collection available on the IFI Archive Player that brings us through a key period in Irish history. These two clips were filmed as newsreels in the early twentieth century by British Pathé and the Topical Film Company. Held … Read more