Nick Maxwell Exhibition, 9 May–30 August 2019, RIA, Dawson Street, Dublin. Amidst the catastrophic horrors of Ireland’s Great Famine of 1845–50 a few bright examples of selfless humanitarianism shine through. One of these, little remembered in Ireland, was the Polish émigré Paul Edmund Strzelecki, known to many of his contemporaries simply as ‘the Count’. Arriving in Ireland … Read more
Exhibition, Linen Hall Library, Belfast, until 31 May 2019, www.makingthefuture.eu. For most of history, Anonymous was a woman’, wrote Virginia Woolf in an essay titled A room of one’s own. A new women’s history exhibition curated by the Linen Hall Library, Belfast, and supported by the EU’s PEACE IV Programme, charts a fascinating and decisive … Read more
Welcome to this special issue marking the 850th anniversary of the English invasion. Yes, English, as persuasively argued (pp 16–17) by Seán Duffy, who, along with his Trinity College colleague Peter Crooks, commissioned the bulk of the copy. That’s what the invaders called themselves and all were subjects of the king of England. Of course, … Read more
[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20190425-HistoryIrelandShow-104.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” History Ireland Hedge school at the Anonymous Was A Woman exhibition launch @ Linen Hall Library, Belfast Friday 12 April 2019 The exhibition makes use of the Linen Hall Library’s extensive collections and archives to highlight the historical … Read more
[sc_embed_player fileurl=”https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20190423-HistoryIrelandShow-103.MP3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” The runaway success of the Atlas of the Irish Revolution (and the parallel TV documentary) and the proliferation of microstudies of the War of Independence and Civil War seems to bear out the adage that, … Read more