Nick Maxwell 1900 Above: Vere Foster, philanthropist and educationalist. Vere Foster (81), philanthropist, died. Appalled by the misery he encountered on his first visit to Ireland in 1847, the worst year of the Famine, Foster used his considerable wealth to devote himself for over 60 years to charitable causes. During the Famine (1845–9) he made three trips … Read more
2011 Michael D. Higgins (70) was inaugurated as the ninth president of Ireland. 1919 First edition of the Irish Bulletin launched by Dáil Éireann in response to a ban on all Republican newspapers and journals. Though obliged to change premises on twelve occasions, production—until the Truce (July 1921)—was not affected. 2011 Michael D. Higgins (70) was … Read more
Thur 5.30pm GPO Witness Visitor Centre, O’Connell St. Rebel Women of the 20th Century—Charlotte Despard, Margaret Ward. Free tickets @ www.gpowitnesshistory.ie. Thur 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Sq. S. The dioceses of Meath and Ossory in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Michael O’Neill.
Tues 7pm Tallaght Historical Society, County Library, The Square. Leo Swan Memorial Lecture: Ireland’s underwater archaeological heritage, Cormac Lowth.
The inebriate reformatory system in Britain and Ireland emerged as a result of the 1898 Inebriate Act, which gave legislative standing to three institutions variously charged with the punishment, reform or treatment of criminal habitual drunkards. The Irish State Inebriate Reformatory at Ennis was the first in what the Irish Independent described as the ‘three … Read more