Nick Maxwell The Third Irish Genealogical Congress will take place on 22-28 September 1997 in St Patrick’s College, Maynooth. A number of presentations on the Famine are planned as part of the 150th anniversary. Another theme will be the seventy-five years work to reconstitute the records destroyed in the Four Courts fire in 1922, aswell as the … Read more
St Ultan’s Hospital was established in 1919 by Dr Kathleen Lynn and Madeleine ffrench-Mullen in response to socio-medical conditions in Dublin. It was not unusual for women to establish hospitals. This had happened in Britain and the United States in the late nineteenth century to facilitate women’s access to the medical profession. Women on missionary … Read more
Andrew Reed was born on 26 September 1837 in Galway town, the third of four children born to John and Mary (née Adamson) Reed. Andrew Reed’s father was a land agent, but Reed’s mother died three years after his birth and his father later remarried. Reed attended Dame School and Erasmus Smith’s school and was … Read more
On 19 September 1803 Robert Emmet was tried for high treason in Green Street courthouse, found guilty, and sentenced to be hung, drawn and quartered. He was executed the next day in Thomas Street. It is often thought that the case against Emmet was one of irresistible strength, so that, for example, the corruption of … Read more
Tom Garvin (UCD) was ‘very uneasy about it’ while Brendan McGahon TD spoke of ‘lurid imaginings’. These comments were made in a Sunday Times article rubbishing the as yet unreleased Neil Jordan film about Michael Collins. The article was entitled ‘Hollywood’s rewrite of Irish history clouds peace process’. Although the peace process has in fact … Read more