Nick Maxwell By Fiona Fitzsimons A UK census was taken on 19 June 1921, weeks before the Truce ending the Irish War of Independence and six months before the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Political unrest meant that the planned census was not taken in Ireland, although pre-printed forms for the 1921 census of Ireland survive in Kew. In 1921 … Read more
THE OWNER A Thomas Campion is recorded on the 1901 census at Seskin, Co. Kilkenny, as an unmarried agricultural labourer, along with his older and younger unmarried sisters, occupying a four-room stone or brick house (2nd class), with a slate or tile roof and four outbuildings. They were Roman Catholic, could all read and write, … Read more
An insignificant document from 1921 minutely pinpoints a turning-point in the revolutionary era. By Tim Bowmer The War of Independence, the Truce and the signing of the Treaty in December 1921 effectively prevented a territory called ‘Southern Ireland’ from coming into being, but its shadow can still be seen through some documents of the period. … Read more
By Margaret Ward During the suffrage years, feminists on both sides of the Irish Sea had cooperated on campaigns for the vote, despite not always agreeing on broader constitutional issues. By 1920, with the intensification of the War of Independence, British feminism became increasingly concerned about the reprisal policy being pursued by Crown forces. The … Read more
Reporting on Croker’s death, the Boston Daily Globe noted that a ‘boss’ was a ‘self-appointed middleman’ who ‘set up other men for the empty honour of being mayor’. Tammany began as a fraternal society in New York in 1789, later becoming the city’s foremost political machine. Associated with corruption, vote-buying and jobbery in the era … Read more