Nick Maxwell Wed 6.30pm People’s College, Teachers’ Club, 36 Parnell Sq. W. New borders in Ireland and Europe 1918–1923, William Mulligan. Adm. €5. Wed 8pm Old Athlone Society, www.athlonehistory.ie. Irish as a vernacular language in Athlone and its hinterland, 1600–c. 1970, Aengus Finnegan. Wed 8pm Rathmichael Historical Society, Rathmichael NS, Shankill, … Read more
The IRA’s Civil War campaign against Dublin’s cinemas and theatres By Gavin Foster A few nights after St Patrick’s Day 1923, two men arrived at the Bohemian Picture House in Phibsborough, a suburb on the north side of Dublin. The Irish Free State was still in the throes of civil war, but social life was … Read more
While many Irishmen were transported to Tasmania, formerly Van Diemen’s Land, either as ordinary criminals or as political offenders during the first half of the nineteenth century, some Irishmen have chosen to settle there. One such was Edmund Dwyer Gray Jr, who rose to be premier of the state of Tasmania for a period of … Read more
The Gray family had strong connections with Australia. Sir John Gray’s brother, Wilson Gray, had emigrated to Australia in 1855; he was active there in the land reform movement and served as a member of the legislative assembly of Victoria. He was later district judge of the Otago goldfields in New Zealand. Moreover, Edmund Senior … Read more
The craniology collection in Trinity College, Dublin By Miguel DeArce and René Gapert The journal Nature recently published a colour map of the human brain (opposite page), identifying 100 brain regions with their distinctive functions. This brought to our mind other, older, nineteenth-century ‘phrenological heads’ that can be sourced from antiquarians throughout Europe (opposite page). … Read more