Nick Maxwell James Aloysius Francis Cuffe was born in 1876 at 62 Mountjoy Square, Dublin, the fourth of the eight children of Laurence Cuffe and his wife Jane McCormick. The Cuffes owned and ran the Dublin cattle market. (They are referred to in James Joyce’s Ulysses.) From an early age Cuffe wanted to be a resident magistrate. … Read more
On 24 January 1915 Cuffe transferred to the Royal Munster Fusiliers, was promoted major and was provided with a car and a driver. His special mission continued. His reports were detailed. On one occasion, unusually, there was an extra man in the car. Cuffe sent him and the driver in different directions to reconnoitre, and … Read more
Mon 8pm Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society, Bury Quay, Tullamore. Poverty and poor relief in pre-Famine King’s County (Offaly), Ciarán McCabe. Mon 8pm Thomond Archaeological & Historical Society, Room T.1.17, Tara Building, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. Democratic revolution? The First Dáil, 1919–21, Mel Farrell.
Shortly before he died tragically earlier this year, the late Shane MacThomáis told the story of Martin Doyle in his regular column in the Northside People West. As historian and resident author at Glasnevin Cemetery, Shane was particularly familiar with the Dublin dead of the First World War and the Irish Revolution. His great empathy … Read more
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