Nick Maxwell Last year I highlighted the case of Newry attempting to reclaim the Carvill Papers from Paterno Library, State College, Pennsylvania. A petition to that effect was ignored by the library but an imaginative ambush has turned things around. Pennsylvania were one of the two American football teams playing in Croke Park on 28 August last … Read more
‘John Ross, a Presbyterian born in Derry in 1853, was a captain of Dublin University Hurley Club in the 1870s, with Edward Carson on his team. His aptitude at “hurley” may have derived from childhood experience of camán, for this short-lived hybrid sport at Trinity College resembled embryonic hockey in ground-play style and rules more … Read more
No doubt we will be hearing a lot of Eric Bogle’s song—perhaps the greatest anti-war song ever written—over the next few weeks and months as we mark the centenary of the Battle of Gallipoli, in which over 130,000 died, including c. 5,000 Irishmen. What seemed like a strategic masterstroke—that would knock out one of the … Read more
The new issue is out! 2015 falls between two centenary years, but there are some big events to be marked this year and we’re trying to do our bit: Gallipoli looms large in our current issue, but there are a few others things between its cover, including: Brian Hanley on commemorating 1916 Fiona Fitzsimons … Read more
[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20150205-HistoryIrelandShow-042.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” Atlantic Aparthotel, Bundoran, Co. Donegal Sat 17 Jan @ 3pm From Ulster Presbyterian emigration in the eighteenth century to the Appalachians and the Ozarks—and the subsequent evolution of country and bluegrass—to Irish Catholic emigration in … Read more