Nick Maxwell Chandra Miller Emigration from Ireland is as ancient a fixture as the human urge to roam and explore. In post-Famine Ireland, however, the emigration of single young women became a documentable historical phenomenon. Before the Great Famine of 1845-1849, emigration had already established itself as a feature of Irish society. In the five years preceding … Read more
The annual conference of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland (SSNCI) was held at Magee College, Derry, on 16 and 17 June 2006. Hosted by the Institute of Ulster Scots Studies at Magee, the conference focused on contacts and parallels in literature, culture and society, economy and politics. It was ably organised by … Read more
The annual Schools’ Prize in History is run by Trinity College, Dublin, in association with Four Courts Press, History Ireland and The Irish Times. This all-Ireland project/essay competition is open to all full-time second-level students in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland, and has a junior category (up to Junior Certificate/1st–3rd form), a … Read more
Around 130 people attended this conference, including about twenty of the Davitt family. The conference was addressed by eighteen speakers, from England, Scotland, the United States and Ireland, North and South. Following an official opening by the president of the College, Pauric Travers, the keynote address, ‘Michael Davitt in historical perspective’, was delivered by Professor … Read more
John White ‘Well, I never knew how good I was ’till now’, Dominick Beirne was quoted as saying on the evening of 21 August 1879. Beirne and at least fourteen of his friends and relations had just witnessed what they … Read more