October 10
Thur 8pm Rathfarnham Historical Society, Memorial Hall. The shadow war: Michael Collins and the politics of violence, Joe Connell.
Nick Maxwell
October 6
Mon 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Square S. Burials, battle wounds, earth and stone: the discovery and excavation of new Early Christian church archaeology in Dublin and Wicklow, Edmond O’Donovan. Mon 8pm Celbridge Historical Society, Celbridge Library. The impact of the First World War on women in Ireland, Fionnuala Walsh.
September 19-21
Fri–Sun Soldiers of Christ: the Knights Hospitaller and the Knights Templar in medieval Ireland, Glenstal Abbey, Murroe, Co. Limerick. A three-day conference exploring the history, archaeology, economic, religious, pastoral and agricultural activities of the military and hospitaller orders in Ireland from their arrival as part of the Anglo-Norman colonisation process in the late twelfth century … Read more
Is Leaving Cert history fit for purpose?
Last March (2014) I had to write an essay for my Leaving Cert history class with the given title of ‘What factors from 1912 onward led to the partition of Ireland?’ For this kind of assignment we are required only to regurgitate information from our textbook, Sovereignty and partition by M.E. Collins. I had recently, … Read more
The trials of academe or rot at the top?
Sir,—Professor Morgan Kelly—famous as the man who predicted the banking collapse and was brushed aside for his pains—recently suggested that the reason for the downward slide in the international ratings of both UCD and TCD was grade inflation, as it is called: more simply expressed as ‘the failure to fail’. But there may also be … Read more