Nick Maxwell BRENDAN SMITH (ed.) Cambridge University Press £100 ISBN 9781107110670 Reviewed by Seán Duffy When Oxford University Press’s nine-volume New History of Ireland was announced in 1968, few can have imagined that it would take 37 years to bring it to completion, though in most respects it was worth the wait: in its day, it merited … Read more
Wed 6pm Old Dublin Society, Dublin City Library & Archive, 138–144 Pearse St. Richard Stanihurst (1547–1618): Dublin’s earliest historian, Colm Lennon.
Fri–Sat Irish Labour History Society Conference: William Walker of Belfast. 6pm Fri @ Mac Centre: William Walker, Michael Mecham. 11am Sat @ John Hewitt Bar: launch of biography followed by discussion on Walker’s Belfast; 2pm: Walker’s relevance today.
Tues 8pm Kilmacanogue History Society, Glenview Hotel, Glen of the Downs. Lt. Edward Hempenstall, the ‘Walking Gallows’ of 1798, in Wicklow lore, Séan A. Murphy. Adm. €3.
Sat 2.30pm Museum of Archaeology, Kildare St. Ardagh Chalice 150th anniversary (tour).