Nick Maxwell BY TONY CANAVAN A forgotten collection of memorabilia was recently unearthed in Derry. Among the items in Frankie McMenamin’s collection is a Dublin Castle arrest warrant for Kevin O’Higgins, the architect of the Irish Free State; a cheque for £11 19s. signed by Terence MacSwiney, the lord mayor of Cork who died on hunger strike … Read more
OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST FEW MONTHS AN AMAZING NEW DISCOVERY HAS COME TO LIGHT By Rachel Phelan In November 2015, having made contact with Lar Joye at the National Museum, I went to view a flag at the Inniskillings Museum in Enniskillen Castle, which its curator, Neil Armstrong, had found at the bottom … Read more
1919 RIC District Inspector Michael Hunt was shot dead by Irish Volunteers in Thurles, Co. Tipperary, the most senior RIC officer to be killed up to that date. 1916Nationalist delegates at a convention in Belfast were persuaded by the Irish Parliamentary Party’s leadership to accept, by 475 votes to 265, ‘temporary partition’ as a wartime … Read more
1916 Thomas Kent (50) executed in Cork.
1972 Ranger William Best (19), a soldier serving with the Royal Irish Rangers in Germany, was shot dead by the Official IRA whilst home on leave visiting his family in Derry’s Creggan estate. The Official IRA called a ceasefire a week later. 1980 After the first of their two summits that year, Taoiseach Charles J. Haughey … Read more