Nick Maxwell BY TONY CANAVAN Battle of Jutland survivor stays afloat It was feared that ten jobs could go at the HMS Caroline floating museum in Belfast as the British government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme ended, but the museum’s staff have been offered a temporary reprieve. The National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) announced that it … Read more
BY AODHÁN CREALEY JANUARY 13/1843 The storms and gale-force conditions that ravaged these islands in January 1843 had devastating consequences off the Mourne coast. Early that fine winter’s morning, some sixteen skiffs set out from Newcastle and the nearby village of Annalong for their customary fishing grounds in Dundrum Bay. Conditions being exceptionally calm, the … Read more
Nano Nagle Place, Douglas Street, Cork www.nanonagleplace.ie By Danielle O’Donovan The inspiration for this exhibition came from women’s words recorded in the Bureau of Military History (BMH) and the South Presentation Convent annals. Through the written records of the Presentation Sisters and their pupils, could we discover their impact on the world, and the … Read more
https://www.louthcoco.ie/en/services/archives/online-digital-archives/1920-archives/ By Lorraine McCann This exhibition, by Louth County Archives Service, highlights themes surrounding the reform of local government and the 1920 local elections; the War of Independence; social and cultural activities; and the impact of the events of the period in the lead-up to partition. It is arranged by archive collection type; politics, administration, … Read more
Having watched RTÉ’s two-part documentary The Hunger: the story of the Irish famine, I was struck by the sobering thought that it cast a demographic shadow well into the 1960s, within the living memory of those of us of a certain age (60 or over). In addition, many of the leaders central to Ireland’s subsequent … Read more