Nick Maxwell By Fiona Brennan The dramatic tragedy Sive, written by the Kerry playwright John B. Keane, enjoys iconic status within the annals of Irish theatre history. Following its initial rejection by the Abbey Theatre in 1958, its acclaimed production by the amateur Listowel Drama Group the following year is legendary. Sixty-five years later, the play remains … Read more
RTÉ1, 12 February 2024 NPE Media By Sylvie Kleinman A ‘crude binary association’ between religious and national affiliation had ‘crystallised’ during the Troubles; 26 years after the Good Friday Agreement, Coleraine man and former rugby international Andrew Trimble asks whether it is perhaps time to blur those lines again. Given the cross-community and all-Ireland nature … Read more
By Karen de Lacey The first Turnpike Act was passed in England in 1663 but it wasn’t until 1729 that the first Turnpike Act for Ireland was introduced, allowing tolls to be charged on those travelling the road from Dublin to Kilcullen. Previously, all responsibility for roads had rested with local parish vestries and the … Read more
By Peter Connolly The Learjet 45 executive jet operated by the Irish Air Corps for the transport of government ministers and officials has been in service since 2004, so a decision regarding its replacement is clearly due, even overdue. We have to go back over 50 years to the first time an Irish government considered … Read more
By Van Gosse As an American historian, I am investigating Irish understandings of the United States’ system of white supremacy and race in general. My perspective is different from that of Irish scholars. ‘Racism’ in Ireland encompasses what Americans call ‘nativism’, as in fear of immigrants. In the US it developed via a black/white binary … Read more