Nick Maxwell BY DONAL FALLON Waterford’s sporting heroes To fans of the Déise in recent times, John Mullane is a sporting hero without rival, proclaiming ‘I loves me county’ after a Munster senior hurling championship victory in 2004. Now, the Waterford Treasures Museum presents a new exhibition at their Bishop’s Palace site, demonstrating the rich sporting pedigree … Read more
By John Gibney The thirteenth volume in the Royal Irish Academy’s Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) series will be published in November 2022, on-schedule, despite the disruption caused by Covid-19. DIFP was established in 1997 as a partnership between the Royal Irish Academy, the National Archives and the Department of Foreign Affairs, and publishes … Read more
By Pádraig Ó Macháin No manuscripts written completely in Irish survive from before 1106, when our oldest Gaelic manuscript, Leabhar na hUidhre, was written. Together with two other manuscripts, these are the only ones to survive from the twelfth century. From the thirteenth century none survive; from the fourteenth fewer than twenty; which means that … Read more
BY AODHÁN CREALEY SEPTEMBER 22/1846 The luxury liner SS Great Britain, en route on her fifth voyage from Liverpool to New York, ran aground on the sands of Dundrum Bay, Co. Down, when her captain mistook the new St John’s lighthouse for the Calf light on the Isle of Man. Designed by the great Isambard … Read more
In spring 2020 justice minister, Charlie Flanagan, announced, as part of the official Decade of Centenaries events, a commemoration of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RIC). Such was the public outcry that it had to be abandoned. Nevertheless a commemoration eventually took place in April 2022, but in St Paul’s Cathedral, London. This was accompanied by … Read more