Nick Maxwell

FOOD RIOTING IN IRELAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES: the moral economy and the Irish crowd

By Eoin Dillon JAMES KELLY, Four Courts Press, €45, ISBN 9791846826399 Eoin Dillin is a scholar of twentieth-century African history. An extravagant generalisation: predominantly agrarian societies share some basic characteristics. Life is dependent on the vagaries of immediate food production and storage; the technology involved is basic and stable, knowledge accrued is experientially based, and … Read more

April 23

Thur 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Square South. Saluting Ireland’s Antarctic explorers, Michael Smith.

April 17

Wed 7pm Irish Association of Professional Historians, NLI, Kildare Street. ‘Late the wife of …’—widows and the 1641 Depositions, Jane Ohlmeyer.

On this Day

BY AODHAN CREALEY MARCH 03/1947 Carol Reed’s film noir Odd Man Out, set in post-war Belfast with James Mason in the title role, opened in the city’s Classic cinema, off Royal Avenue. A large number of RUC men, in uniform and in plain clothes, were on duty outside, partly because Inspector General (Chief Constable) Sir … Read more

April 9

Tues 7pm Tallaght Historical Society, County Library, The Square. Sir John Traill: knight, architect, sheriff and chancer, Micheál Ó Doibhilin.