Nick Maxwell Kennedy Abraham In May 1488 Henry VII pardoned thirty-three Irish magnates for having allegedly provided support for the ill-fated Lambert Simnel conspiracy which had threatened the throne in favour of the Yorkists in the previous year. Drawn from the church, peerage, administration and urban communities, this group of magnates not only indicates the degree of … Read more
For years John de Courcy Ireland has championed the cause of maritime affairs in Ireland and in particular has sought to rediscover our often neglected maritime history. David Sheehy talked to him recently. DS: How do you come to have such an interesting name as de Courcy Ireland? JDCI: … Read more
This issue of History Ireland touches on some aspects of Ireland’s connection with Germany and the German-speaking parts of Europe. It came about by accident. The editors received a number of German-related articles and decided to commission a few more to fill out a whole magazine (Our review section will resume as usual in the … Read more
Last April Rathfarnham established its very own historical society with the aim of promoting the history and cultural heritage of the area. Membership is open to all who pay the annual sub (£10; students £5; families £15; non-members £2 per lecture) . The society has already had lectures on a variety of topics—nineteenth century life … Read more
The first Limerick Conference in Irish-German Studies gets underway at the start of September in the University. It is exactly forty years since Nobel Literature Prize-winner Heinrich Böll’s Irisches Tagebuch was first published. Böll, who died in 1985, would have been eighty this year and to mark both occasions the conference puts Böll centre stage. … Read more