Nick Maxwell HOW WOULD MEDIEVAL PILGRIMS RETURNING FROM SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA TO WATERFORD HARBOUR HAVE TRAVELLED HOME TO DUBLIN? By Damien McLellan Every year for the past fifteen years I have walked one of the many medieval pilgrim roads in France and Spain that lead to Santiago de Compostela in the far north-western corner of Spain. I … Read more
Waterford estuary was the arrival and departure point on many significant occasions in Irish history. It was here at Crooke, near Passage East, on St Bartholomew’s Eve, 23 August 1170, that Richard FitzGilbert de Clare, better known to us as Strongbow, arrived to initiate the Norman invasion. Later that same year something happened in the … Read more
WHY HAS IRELAND, TO DATE, RESISTED THE DEMANDS FROM CITIZENS ABROAD TO END THEIR DISENFRANCHISEMENT? By Mary J. Hickman When citizens leave Ireland they continue to have the right to vote in Irish elections and referendums for eighteen months. This status has not changed since the Electoral Act of 1963. In the 50 years since, … Read more
Sir,—I am doing a bit of research for native New Yorker Tom Mannix, who has an engineer’s pocket-watch that he inherited from his father, who told him that it belonged to his great-grandfather. He is interested in some information on the Limerick and Waterford Railway Company and the Sligo to Claremorris and Castlebar line of … Read more
Sir,—I am an International Peace Studies student at Trinity College Dublin, researching contemporary southern unionism. My research to date suggests that unionism is not extinct but has evolved over the past century into (a) ‘cultural unionism’, those who believe that there is a social union between the peoples of the British Isles, are somewhat fond … Read more