Nick Maxwell Our May/June issue is out now, complete with another nifty cover courtesy of Robert Ballagh. And, as the cover suggests, we’re moving back towards centenary territory after our Brian Boru issue. In the current issue we have: Lord Sligo’s plunder of ancient Greece. Felix Larkin on the Phoenix Park murders. Brian Hanley on the … Read more
[sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20140415-HistoryIrelandShow-035.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ Seanchaí—Kerry Writers’ Museum, Listowel Roger Casement’s landing and arrest at Banna Strand has assured Kerry a place in the narrative (and song) of the 1916 Rising. The county was equally prominent in the War … Read more
Thur 8pm Kilmacud Stillorgan Local History Society, Glenalbyn Sports Club. Baggot Street Hospital 60 years ago, Michael Pegum. Adm. €3.
In 1811 an anonymous pamphleteer known as ‘Solomon second-sight’ published a tract entitled It could be so, in which revealed a sinister dream to his readers. Solomon claimed that he was not the first to have a vision along these lines. For those who might be uncertain as to what Solomon’s vision meant, before revealing it … Read more
Nobody knows for sure if William Diggin began his 1913 emigration with a ride aboard the Lartigue monorail from Ballybunion to the mainline train at Listowel. The monorail began operating between the two north Kerry towns in 1888 and attracted more than 72,000 riders in 1913. But no passenger lists survive for the railway like … Read more