Nick Maxwell BY FELIX M. LARKIN Martyn Turner, the Irish Times cartoonist since the 1970s, recently announced in the ‘Irishman’s Diary’ column in that newspaper that he had become an Irish citizen. Congratulations to him on that, but let’s hope it doesn’t diminish the acuity with which he comments in his cartoons on our follies and foibles. … Read more
BY JAMES O’NEILL On 22 May 2020, archaeologists in Valladolid, Spain, reported the discovery of bones at an excavation to find the last resting place of Red Hugh O’Donnell, lord of Tirconnell. The news provoked significant interest from both the national and social media, with much tweeting and comment on the possible rediscovery of one … Read more
Welcome to the second issue of the COVID-19 lockdown—although by now restrictions are, thankfully, beginning to be lifted. While it has been ‘business as usual’ for the History Ireland production team, readers will notice certain small changes. We have revamped the front cover, a precursor to a more general redesign in future editions. The magazine … Read more
[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://history2013.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/20200609-HistoryIrelandShow-112.mp3″] Click the play button to listenTo download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Born in Dublin’s Fishamble Street in 1746, but resident for most of his life in Tinnehinch, near Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow, Henry Grattan was the most noted, and certainly the most eloquent, of the eighteenth-century opposition ‘patriots’ … Read more
[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://history2013.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/20200430-HistoryIrelandShow-111.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” This Podcast is part of the History Ireland Hedge School programme supported by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht under the Decade of Centenaries 2012–2023 initiative. In the midst of the War of Independence a … Read more