March 21
Thur 7.15pm Leixlip History Group, Leixlip Library. Sr Kate McCarthy from Cork—a heroine of the French Resistance, Cati Fleming.
Nick Maxwell
Events
MARCH 05 Mon 6.30pm Engineers Ireland Heritage Society, 22 Clyde Road, Dublin 4. Cast-iron bridges, Ron Cox. 05 Mon 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Sq. S. Everything but the apothecary: recent archaeological excavations, Kevin Street, Dublin, Alan Hayden. 07 Wed 7pm Irish Association of Professional Historians, National Library of Ireland, Kildare … Read more
100 YEARS AGO: John Redmond dies
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr John Edward Redmond was a barrister, a writer and a nationalist politician. He was an MP and was leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) from 1900 to 1918. He was, for the time, a moderate, constitutional and conciliatory politician, and he attained the twin dominant objectives of his political … Read more
Frank Flood and the Drumcondra ambush
Bridge over the River Tolka to be named after one of the ‘Forgotten Ten’. By Seán Ryan The recent decision by Dublin City Council to name the bridge over the Tolka in the north Dublin suburb of Drumcondra after Frank Flood is to be welcomed. Flood was executed by the British authorities for his part … Read more
Judging the Catholic Church
In his review of Fintan O’Toole’s Judging Shaw (Big Book, pp 60–1) Peter Gahan observes that ‘Shaw’s sceptical, questioning mode of thinking has become so much part of the intellectual air we breathe, the culture we imbue, as to have rendered him practically invisible: a victim of his own success as slayer of the idols … Read more