Nick Maxwell EPIC, the Irish Emigration Museum, collaborates with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to showcase the global Irish diaspora. By Angela Byrne In 2018–19 EPIC is working together with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to celebrate global Irish emigration through the centuries, and to enhance connections with the Irish diaspora today, … Read more
While not a ‘special’ as such, this issue has a particular end-of-First-World-War emphasis. Mark Phelan reminds us of how the Central Powers were eventually defeated (pp 24–7); Monika Barget, Pádraig MacCarron and Susan Schreibman retrieve yet another aspect of the heretofore hidden history of women’s involvement (‘Sphagum moss and female agency’, pp 32–4); and John … Read more
Adolf Mahr, a Nazi and Celtic archaeologist in the National Museum, was centrally involved in the selection of archaeological sites for excavation and was the main adviser to the Harvard Archaeological Mission. He came to Ireland from Austria in 1927 to take up a position as Keeper of Irish Antiquities at the National Museum of … Read more
The Harvard Archaeological Mission to Ireland, 1932–6. By Mairéad Carew The driving force behind the Harvard Archaeological Mission to Ireland was eugenics, now considered a pseudo-science and a variant of scientific racism. It was then regarded as the science of better breeding for human beings and had been established as a discipline in several … Read more
Sir,—Your last editorial (HI 26.4, July/August 2018) provides an interesting summary of the evolution of Irish society and its relationship with Catholicism. From a position of being overly deferential towards Catholicism, the majority of Irish people have now gone full circle and adopted a child-like, naïve faith in secularism. Much thinking in this country is … Read more