By Éamon Ó Caoineachán Bundoran’s long-lost guidebook, Revd T.C. Connolly’s Bundoran and its neighbourhood (1895), has been found. Its well-travelled pages, which circumnavigate around one of Ireland’s most historically famous seaside resorts and watering-places, finally returns into the hands of ‘Bundoranese’ and Irish readers. The guide and its author, T.C. Connolly, take the reader on … Read more
By Mícheál Mac Donncha If the 1916 Rising was a short war, the battle for the place where it ended—Moore Street—could be described as a very long war indeed. It was reported in mid-July 2025 that Hammerson, the British-based property company that owns most of the Moore Street 1916 battlefield site, was considering selling it. … Read more
BY AODHÁN CREALEY SEPTEMBER 03/1939 Britain and France declared war on Germany. The Dáil and Senate, meeting in emergency session, passed the Emergency Powers Act. Throughout that decade de Valera held firmly to a policy of neutrality, as he had during the Spanish Civil War, when he resisted a large swathe of Irish public opinion … Read more
Wednesday 6 August 2025 marked the 250th anniversary of the birth of Daniel O’Connell, probably the most charismatic political leader that Ireland has ever produced. Often dismissed as a ‘conservative Catholic nationalist’, in fact he believed in the separation of Church and State, and in the wider European context he was regarded as a liberal. … Read more