Nick Maxwell On 24 October 1913 Jack White organised a pro-Home Rule rally in Ballymoney, Co. Antrim, aimed at rallying Ulster Protestants who supported Home Rule. While support for nationalism and unionism was usually intertwined with confessional affiliation – nationalists tended to be Catholic, unionists tended to be Protestant – there had always been a small minority … Read more
The centenary of the 1913 Lockout has understandably generated a good deal of writing this year (and thanks to all who bought our recent special issue, which sold out). Life in Dublin’s poverty-stricken slum tenements is revealed in unflinching detail in Terry Fagan’s Dublin tenements: memories of life in Dublin’s notorious tenements (North Inner City … Read more
Haigh Terrace, Dún Laoghaire administration@mariner.ie, www.mariner.ie +353 (0)1 243964/2800969 by Tony Canavan The National Maritime Museum of Ireland is situated in the former Mariners’ Church in Dún Laoghaire. The church was built in 1837 and became a museum in 1974 under the auspices of the Maritime Institute of Ireland. Given the fact that Ireland is … Read more
Peter Daly: good cop/bad cop ‘Documentary on One’, RTÉ Radio 1, 14 September 2013 Citizens: Lockout 1913–2013 Episode 5: ‘Consequences 1914–1916’, RTÉ Radio 1, 7 September 2013 Listening to Peter Daly: good cop/bad cop, it was hard not to feel that the story being told was as fit for the big screen as for a … Read more
Because Queen Victoria’s invitation to William Ewart Gladstone to form his first administration in 1868 followed a period of Fenian violence, his response to this was ‘My mission is to pacify Ireland’. There are lessons for the EU authorities in how he went about it. In both cases, property rights are the crucial factor. Irish … Read more