Nick Maxwell Decade of Centenaries pop-up Women’s Museum https://www.decadeofcentenaries.com/enjoy-this-virtual-tour-of-the-pop-up-womens-museum/ By Tony Canavan The Decade of Centenaries has responded to the restrictions on events imposed because of COVID-19 by moving on-line. This exhibition consists of a virtual tour that examines the part played by different women over the last 100 years. It celebrates the stories of over 300 … Read more
RTÉ, BBC, Oireachtas TV June 2020 Midas Productions By Donal Fallon That Michael Portillo is not afraid to be critical of the British handling of the Irish Revolution was evident in his 2016 documentary The Enemy Files. An episode that received little attention in Ireland’s ‘decade of centenaries’—except for the efforts of a local history … Read more
The question of Haughey’s involvement in this bizarre series of events continues to fascinate. By Stephen Kelly The true extent of Charles J. Haughey’s role in attempts to import guns and ammunition in order to arm Northern republicans during the winter of 1969 and the early months of 1970 has never been definitively established. The … Read more
By Lar Joye The Universal Carrier was a tracked vehicle designed by Vickers Armstrong for the British Army in 1940. During the Second World War it was used by all the Allies; over 2,000 were sent to the Soviet Union, while the German Army used captured ones from Dunkirk. Overall it was the most-produced tracked … Read more
An incisive thinker with a flamboyant personality, she was a leading figure in the ‘Golden Age of female philosophy’. By John Hayes Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, the most considerable female philosopher of the twentieth century writing in English, was born in Limerick on 18 March 1919 and was baptised in St Mary’s Church of Ireland … Read more