Nick Maxwell A new ‘Gateway for Irish Studies in the Humanities’ has been set up athttp://www.ucd.ie/irh. Its purpose is to provide a single access pointfor new and innovative sites on the Internet which engage with themedium of hypertext and the spatial freedom of the Internet to furtherour understanding of the various fields of Irish studies in thehumanities. … Read more
The sonorous sound of the unique set of bells from St George’s Church, Hardwicke Place, silent since the church closed in 1990, will be heard again ringing in the next millennium at a new location in Dublin, in Taney parish church, Dundrum. The set of bells are an important and integral part of Dublin’s rich … Read more
The beautiful and panoramic Oulart Hill in County Wexford was the site of a stunning victory for the United Irishmen in 1798. In recent years its history and natural unspoiled beauty have been sensitively presented to the public by the locally formed Oulart Hill Co-Op. It has since become the site for a fascinating new … Read more
No better reminder of one of Ireland’s most distinctive contributions to Scottish society could have been found than the parade held by the Loyal Orange Institution of Scotland in the south Ayrshire town of Cumnock on 12 September 1998. Its purpose was to commemorate the bicentenary of the arrival of Orangeism in Scotland, only three … Read more
Probably no other ethnic group in North America has had as much ink spilt on the usage of the terminology applied to define them than those labelled the Scotch-Irish or Scots-Irish. Those exploring the historical phenomenon of migration from Ireland to North America now use the term, which always retained a certain ambiguity, less frequently. … Read more