Nick Maxwell JOHN DORNEY Merrion €19.99 ISBN 9781785370892 Reviewed by John Gibney John Gibney is Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade 100 Project co-ordinator with the Royal Irish Academy’s Documents on Irish Foreign Policy project. One of the great set pieces of the Irish revolution is the outbreak of the Civil War in Dublin in June 1922—the … Read more
FRED POWELL Policy Press £64 ISBN: 9781447332916 Reviewed by Bartholomew Begley Bartholomew Begley is an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland postdoctoral fellow in Philosophy at Dublin City University. Fred Powellhas set himself the formidable,multi-facetedand laudable task of analysing the real rationale behind Ireland’s current welfare regime, describing the cultural and political path that got … Read more
Wed 6pm Old Dublin Society, Dublin City Library & Archive, 138–144 Pearse Street. The foundation of St Michael’s Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, Tom Conlon. Wed 8pm Carrickfergus & District Historical Society, Dobbs Room, Carrickfergus Town Hall. Old Carrickfergus postcards, Graham Walton.
1992 President Mary Robinson became the first Irish president to visit Belfast. 1177 John de Courcy and his legendary ‘twenty-two mailed horsemen’, fellow knights in Henry II’s Dublin garrison, set out to invade Ulster. With guides and c. 200 foot-soldiers from the native Irish, he passed through Meath, proceeded through the Moyry Pass into Ulster and … Read more
Thur 7.30pm East Belfast Historical Society, Park Avenue Hotel, 158 Hollywood Road. History of the Northern Ireland Fire Service, Bill Charteris. Adm. £3. Thur 8pm Kilmacud Stillorgan Local History Society, Glenalbyn Sports Club. The Moravians, Ged Walsh. Adm. €3. Thur 8.30pm Enniskerry History Society, Powerscourt Arms Hotel. A brief history of the Great Northern Railway … Read more