Nick Maxwell BY DONAL FALLON ROYAL HIBERNIAN ACADEMY 195th SHOW OPENS The Royal Hibernian Academy’s Annual Show has returned, running until August 2025. This is the 195th show and includes plenty that will appeal to readers of History Ireland. Mick O’Dea (RHA past president) presents a series of works capturing Druid’s recent productions of the Seán O’Casey … Read more
Pages from one of the most important surviving medieval manuscripts written in Irish, the Book of Leinster, have gone on display as part of a new exhibition in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, following a major conservation project funded by a grant from the Bank of America’s Art Conservation Project. Written in Old and … Read more
Billy Colfer’s three superb books on Wexford history appeared in the ‘Irish Landscape’ series for Cork University Press, edited by Kevin Whelan and Matthew Stout. These books were produced to a high quality, were splendidly illustrated and have stayed in print ever since. The first volume, on the Hook Peninsula (2004), is widely cited as … Read more
BY AODHÁN CREALEY JULY 22/1950 Reginald Ingram Montgomery Hitchcock (57), the film director known as Rex Ingram, died in California. Born in Rathmines, the son of a clergyman, Ingram emigrated at the age of eighteen and studied sculpture in New York. Subsequently he joined the Edison Film Studios, where he acted, wrote scripts and, in … Read more
Our front cover features a painting of the Lancaster bomber—VN-Z ME798—crewed by Irish airman Sergeant P.B. McRann, the subject of a piece of family history detective work by Desmond Gibney on pp 44–6. For male readers of a certain age the image will surely conjure up nostalgic memories, particularly olfactory ones, of Airfix model-making. But … Read more