Nick Maxwell By Grainne Doran New Ross municipal archive contains an interesting cache of handwritten applications from nineteen prospective candidates for the post of schoolmaster in the John Ivory Endowed School in the town during the 1860s–70s. Located on the north-eastern side of North Street (now John Street), the school was endowed in 1713 by John Ivory, … Read more
By Anna Rose Garvey In 2021 Kasandra O’Connell, Head of the IFI Film Archive, acknowledged a limitation in the IFI Film Archive research resources and put out a request to academic partners for assistance in developing new tools that would highlight the work of female filmmakers within the collection ( https://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue20/HTML/ArticleOConnell.html ). This resulted in … Read more
By Edmond Barrett In 1993 the new, small ten pence coin was introduced to replace the 1971 design. Time, and with it inflation, had rendered the old design increasingly expensive in relation to its monetary value. With the successful introduction of the smaller version of the 5p coin, the time seemed right for a new … Read more
By Fiona Fitzsimons The Valuation Office collection contains three distinct sets of records: the Archives (see Kindred Lines, HI 31.6, Nov./Dec. 2023, p. 33), Griffith’s Valuation and the Cancelled Books. The Cancelled Books comprise the largest part of the collection, collated over the longest time, from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1980s. Over a period … Read more
By Damian Murphy A little of Carrick-on-Shannon’s ecclesiastical heritage was lost but much more was gained when Edward Costello (1823–91) chose to build a mortuary chapel not in the sylvan setting of a churchyard or municipal cemetery but on the site of an old Primitive Wesleyan meeting-house in Bridge Street, a bustling high street, and … Read more