Nick Maxwell Sir,—Your latest editorial (HI 30.5, Sept./Oct. 2022) offers a simple (and, indeed, quite simplistic) binary—as well as utterly unhistorical—distinction between (a) ‘military forces’ and (b) ‘a civil police force’. Ireland (outside Dublin City) was policed from 1836 not by ‘military forces’ but on a model that also operated both on the Continent and in Canada—the … Read more
BY DONAL FALLON FOLK 21 Congratulations to the National Museum of Ireland, Country Life (the only branch of the NMI outside Dublin), which has marked 2022 with Folk 21, an exhibition inspired by the 21st anniversary of the institution. The museum site was born out of the Irish Folklore Collection of the institution, which they … Read more
https://ancientclans.org/heritage-site/the-battle-of-benburb/ By John Gibney Given the ongoing behemoth that is the ‘decade of centenaries’, one could be forgiven for thinking that Ireland had no history beyond the second decade of the twentieth century. While it is good to see resources being lavished on history at all, the decade seems to have become the centre of … Read more
BY AODHÁN CREALEY NOVEMBER 05/1881 Robert Mallet (71), engineer and seismologist, died. Early in his career Mallet turned his father’s Dublin foundry into one of the biggest engineering companies on these islands, supplying the ironwork for the expanding railway network, the construction of the Fasnet Lighthouse (1848–9) and much more, such as the railings surrounding … Read more
National Gallery of Ireland until 8 January 2023 By Niamh MacNally This exhibition, dedicated to the Irish artist Estella Solomons (1882–1968), comprises eighteen artworks, with loans drawn from public and private collections across the island of Ireland. It also includes items from the Estella Solomons and Seumas O’Sullivan archive, housed in the Library of Trinity … Read more