March 05
Thur 8pm Mount Merrion Historical Society, Community Centre, North Avenue. The untold story of Richard Hayes, codebreaker, Mark McMenamin. Adm. €4/€2.
Nick Maxwell
March 04
Wed 8pm Cork Historical & Archaeological Society, Crawford Gallery. Iconography: past and future histories and how the Irish have avoided it, Colum Hourihane. Wed 8pm Rathmichael Historical Society, Rathmichael NS, Stonebridge Road. Wolfe Tone, Matilda and family, Larry Breen. Adm. €5.
Sidelines
Jimmy Deenihan, Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, has announced a programme to mark the millennium of the Battle of Clontarf, despite being told to ‘shush’ by a security guard at Trinity College, Dublin, where the launch took place. The events to mark the battle will truly be on a national scale, with his … Read more
Countdown to 2016 : Larne Gunrunning
In anticipation of the possibility of Home Rule, Edward Carson and James Craig founded the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in early 1913. Their intention was that unionists in the north would prevent the enactment of Home Rule. In March 1914 the third Home Rule Bill was introduced into the House of Commons. Because of the … Read more
From village to suburb: the building of Clontarf since 1760
Claire Gogarty Clontarf Books £30 ISBN 9781782801702 Clontarf these days, to outsiders at least, seems no more than an amorphous part of the suburbs that stretch without interruption around Dublin Bay from Howth to Killiney. In the late eighteenth century, however, it was a small fishing base and one of the early bathing places close … Read more