Nick Maxwell BY AODHÁN CREALEY MARCH 06/1836 The Siege of the Alamo ended when the forces of General Antonio López de Santa Anna overran the former Franciscan mission near San Antonio, Texas, which 184 settlers had heroically defended for thirteen days. The final assault by a Mexican army of between 1,800 and 6,000 men lasted less than … Read more
By Aengus Ó Snodaigh Like many cooped up at home during the early days of this Covid-19 pandemic, I would venture, when allowed, to the Phoenix Park to stretch my legs, whiling away an hour or so. More often than not, I gravitated to the imposing and decaying Magazine Fort sitting on top of what … Read more
By Helen Pierce Each January, the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) curates a month-long, free-of-charge exhibition based around items from the Vaughan bequest of watercolours by J.M.W. Turner. Drawings by the English artist Francis Place (1647–1728) were included in this year’s display, entitled ‘Turner & Place: Landscapes in Light and Detail’. The NGI owns a … Read more
In this issue Jack Hepworth (‘The “good Old IRA”—remembering republican veterans after 1969’, pp 40–3) reminds us that in 1972 there were some 32,000 living republican veterans of the War of Independence and Civil War. They were at the same remove from the events of the ‘revolutionary decade’ as we are now from the events … Read more
Within weeks of the ratification of the Treaty by Dáil Éireann an ‘Irish Race Congress’ assembled in Paris representing Irish organizations from twenty-two countries. Inevitably the Treaty split overshadowed its proceedings. Did global Irish experiences moderate or radicalise expectations of Irish independence? What legacy did Irish sovereignty bequeath to the historical memory of the Irish … Read more