What’s in our May/June issue?

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

Before Banna: politics, society & sport in Kerry 1912–1916

[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

An Odd Coincidence

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