Nick Maxwell Sir,—Your last editorial (HI 22.4, July/ Aug. 2014) is puzzling. How could ‘the political leaders . . . of Ireland . . . stand indicted’ for the Great War? Carson wasn’t in cabinet until 1915 and Redmond declined his appointment, so your concern must be with both men’s advocating enlistment to fight their country’s enemies. … Read more
Fri-Sun 26th Desmond Greaves Annual School, Ireland Institute, 27 Pearse Street. Ideology of remembrance: Ireland & the First World War, Brian Hanley & Michael Quinn; Good Friday Agreement, Anne Cadwallader, Tom McGurk & Declan Kearney; Politics & the physical force tradition in Ireland, Tommy McKearney, Eoin Ó Murchú & Mícheál Mac Donncha; Imperialism & the … Read more
Wed 6pm Old Dublin Society, Dublin City Library & Archive, 138–144 Pearse St. Unequal treatment of IRA widows reflected the social hierarchy of the Free State, Pádraig Yeates.
The Dublin Festival of History, which debuted last year and enjoyed packed audiences, returns on 26 September–8 October. There seems to be a voracious interest in history matters among the general public. Chalke Valley History Festival kicked it all off in the UK in 2011 and has now grown to a week-long series of lectures … Read more
More historical artefacts may be lost to Ireland with the sale of seventeen rare books and a collection of art by All Hallows College, Drumcondra, a former Catholic seminary. One book, for example, a fifteenth-century Flemish Book of Hours, is valued at ?60,000. The paintings are mainly portraits of clerical dignitaries from the nineteenth and … Read more