Nick Maxwell With the nights getter longer, we’ve decided to do a little online round-up, as there is all kinds of material now on the internet thanks to the decade of centenaries/commemoration. Anyone who signed up to this remarkable TCD online course on the Irish revolution will be well aware that resources are being freed up to … Read more
With Paul McGinley captaining the European team at the imminent Ryder Cup, and Rory McIlroy claiming the PGA Championship, 2014 has been a good year for Irish golf. Readers who enjoyed Daniel Mulhall’s piece on its origins might be interested in From tee to green: the story of Irish golf, the first episode of which … Read more
The Galway Hooker in the picture on the right—Bláth na hÓige—was built on Leitir Mealláin (Lettermullan island) off the Connemara coast in the nineteenth-century, and as of 2014 is operating out of Roundstone in Connemara, bringing people on 2-3 hour sailing trips around Roundstone Bay and its islands. The distinctive shape of the hooker is … Read more
September 1 Mon 8pm Celbridge Historical Society, Celbridge Library. The quiet quarterback—Protestants and the GAA, Ida Milne. 6 Sat 11.30pm Bray Cualann Historical Society, Ballywaltrim Library, Boghall Road. County Wicklow’s reaction to the outbreak of World War I, James Scannell. 8 Mon 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Square S. Helen Roe … Read more
‘The only consideration which activated the minds of the Unionist powers . . . was that two-thirds of the population of Londonderry were Catholics. They sited the university in the heart of Coleraine . . . [a] unionist-dominated area.’ This assertion in Gerry Fitt’s maiden speech at Westminster in 1966 is still widely believed, but … Read more