September 08-10
Fri–Sun Féile Fidelma, Hall of the Vicars Choral, the Rock of Cashel. Peter Tremayne, Nancy Marck Cantwell, Marteinn Thorisson, Hans van den Boom, Patrick Gleeson, Kevin Murray, David Robert Wooten; www.sisterfidelma.com.
Nick Maxwell
‘The leading advocate of every murderer, ruffian and rogue villain’‘The leading advocate of every murderer, ruffian and rogue villain’
The life and times of John Philpot Curran. By Patrick Gageby Sadly, barristers are not now as popular as they used to be. John Philpot Curran was probably the most widely known barrister, Irish or British, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His speeches were reprinted throughout the nineteenth century, and in Ireland … Read more
Events
SEPTEMBER 04 Mon 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Sq. S. Experimental archaeology: making, understanding, story-telling, Aidan O’Sullivan. 06 Wed 10.30am Dalkey Public Library, Castle St. Women artists of the twentieth century I, Leah Reynolds. 08 Fri 3pm Royal Irish Academy, Dawson St. Weapons in Irish history, Lar Joye. 08–10 Fri–Sun Féile … Read more
100 YEARS AGO: Thomas Ashe dies after force-feeding, 25 September 1917
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr During the Easter Rising, the 5th Battalion of the Irish Volunteers, under the command of Cmdt Thomas Ashe, carried out a series of raids and reconnaissance movements throughout north County Dublin from Easter Monday to Friday. (After the Rising, the unit became known as the ‘Fingal Brigade’ but was not … Read more
‘To Mrs Martin I am endebted …’
Earliest Theobald Wolfe Tone manuscripts (1783) recently discovered. By Sylvie Kleinman When Theobald Wolfe Tone’s son William published his father’s papers as the Life in 1826, he admitted suppressing ‘the account of some early amours’ and evidence of youthful wildness. Indeed, Tone himself had recorded in his brief autobiographical ‘Memorandums’ behaviour both reckless and risky. … Read more