Nick Maxwell On 20 September 1845, The Nation advertised: ‘Frederick Douglas [sic], recently a slave in the United States, intends to deliver another lecture in the Music-Hall, Lower-Abbey street, on Tuesday evening next, 23rd instant, at eight o’clock. Doors to be open at half-past seven o’clock. Admission, by tickets, to be had at the door. Promenade—fourpence. Gallery—twopence.’ … Read more
The Orange Order Mervyn Jess (O’Brien Press, €11.95) ISBN 97808627896619 The Orange Order: a contemporary Northern Irish history Eric P. Kaufmann (Oxford University Press, £30) ISBN 9780199208487 Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland since 1945: the decline of the loyal family Henry Patterson and Eric Kaufmann (Manchester University Press, £16.99) ISBN 9780719077449 Orangeism, once the … Read more
Early twentieth-century Adare, a village in the possession of the earl of Dunraven, was strung out along a road that formed the western boundary of the Adare Manor demesne. It had two prominent churches, neither of which was situated at the nucleus of the village, where the road forked. A fair green stood at that … Read more
In March 1958 an oil company was registered in Dublin with a view to securing exploration rights for the 27,000 square miles of the Irish Republic. The principal shareholders were George Collins, Roger Messman and Charles Rinehart. All three were from America and each held a £1 share in the company, which they called Madonna … Read more
Sentiment is not something that one would normally associate with Henry Ford, who once remarked that ‘History is bunk!’ (Readers of a certain age might recall that this was a question—followed by ‘discuss’—on the 1975 honours history Leaving Cert. paper. Did anyone out there actually attempt it?) Yet it was largely sentiment that determined the … Read more