Nick Maxwell BY AODHÁN CREALEY JANUARY 06/1834 Richard Martin (79), landowner and politician, died. Residing in Dangan House, some four miles upstream on the Corrib from Galway city, Martin, who sat in both the Irish House of Commons and the British House of Commons, was the owner of the largest estate in Ireland, some 200,000 acres. Renowned … Read more
Mon 7.45pm Donaghadee Historical Society, Methodist Church Hall, Moat Street. A photographic perspective of County Down, Mike Hartwell.
Handwritten news was exchanged across Europe in what was a lucrative and powerful network. By Eoin Hahessy Irish research has found an entirely lost news environment in the Medici papers at Florence’s State Archives. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries early modern Europe communicated by handwritten newsletters, many of which had been forgotten until now. … Read more
JANUARY 05 Sun 2pm National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street. Tour: Power, prayer and pattens—women in medieval Ireland (not wheelchair accessible). 07 Mon 7.45pm Donaghadee Historical Society, Methodist Church Hall, Moat Street. A photographic perspective of County Down, Mike Hartwell. 08 Wed 7.45pm Knocklyon History Society, Pastoral Centre. The defences of Dublin—1000 years, 945–1945, Patrick … Read more
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr In the general election of December 1918 the newly re-formed Sinn Féin party had secured a large majority of seats (73 out of 105, or 69.5%) with only 46.9% of the vote (albeit 25 of those seats were uncontested) because of the ‘first-past-the-post’ electoral system. This provided a propaganda coup … Read more