Nick Maxwell 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
Wed 6pm Old Dublin Society, Dublin City Library & Archive, 138–144 Pearse St. On the banks of the Dodder, Ged Walsh. Wed 8pm Malahide Historical Society, Presbyterian Church Hall, Dublin Road. The Southern Cross flight from Portmarnock, 1930, and its global navigation, Garry Ahern. Adm. €5.
When Brian Boru was killed at the Battle of Clontarf he left two sons chall-enging each other for the succession, half-brothers of whom the older was Donnchad, son of the famous Gormlaith (d. 1030). There followed a type of civil war within Dál Cais, culminating in 1023 in the treacherous killing of the younger brother, … Read more
Following on from the article we recently dug out of the back-catalogue on ‘Wrong Way Corrigan’ (Sept/Oct 2008), we’re sticking with the aviation theme. Viewers of the recent RTÉ documentary ‘Pioneers and aviators’ may have felt that it left a few things out; Corrigan didn’t make the cut. But neither did an unusual example of … Read more