Nick Maxwell Sun–Fri Parnell Summer School, Avondale House, Co. Wicklow. Parnell and Kennedy: lost leaders. Enquiries: Deirdre Larkin, +353(0)1 2852113, dlarkin@parnellsociety.com. Mon 8pm Rathmichael Historical Society, Rathmichael NS, Shankill, Co. Dublin. Contacts between Ireland and Britain in the Iron Age/early medieval period, as revealed by the Irish burial record, Elizabeth O’Brien. Adm. €4.
Sun–Fri Parnell Summer School, Avondale House, Co. Wicklow. Parnell and Kennedy: lost leaders. Enquiries: Deirdre Larkin, +353(0)1 2852113, dlarkin@parnellsociety.com.
RTE Radio’s ‘Documentary on One’ slot recently broadcast ‘Sugar and the Blue-Eyed Slave’; Joe Kearney’s exploration of the strong Irish connection with the Carribbean island of Montserrat, famously devastated by a volcanic eruption in the 1990s. Joe Kearney first heard of the Irish link to the island from Philly Lynch, a Kilkenny philatelist, who showed … Read more
Lone crusader: David Thornley and the intellectuals Edward Thornley (Ashfield Press, €21.50) ISBN 9789068798 The premature death of David Thornley in June 1978 deprived Ireland of a significant intellectual best known for his current affairs work on RTÉ’s Seven Days programme and as a Labour TD for Dublin North-West from 1969 to 1977. Unseated … Read more
The men will talk to me: Kerry interviews by Ernie O’Malley Cormac K.H. O’Malley and Tim Horgan (eds) (Mercier Press, €19.99) ISBN 9781856359528 The title of this collection conveys the point that, as a highly respected IRA veteran, Ernie O’Malley had unique access to his former comrades when in the late 1940s and early … Read more