Nick Maxwell In a previous editorial (HI 18.3, May/June 2010) I expressed the hope that once we quantified the scale of our current fiscal difficulties the only way to go was up. Well, now we know—c. €50 billion to bail out the banks and cuts of c. €15 billion in government spending over the next four years—and … Read more
The early to mid-1920s was a period of despondency for the Irish labour movement. The victory of the Free State regime in the Civil War was accompanied by an all-out assault on the wages and conditions of Irish workers. Major strikes involving postal workers, Dublin dockers and Waterford farm labourers were just three of a … Read more
The team consisted of Paddy O’Reilly (Athlone Town), Jack McCarthy (Bohemians), Bertie Kerr (Bohemians), Tommy Muldoon (Athlone Town), John Joe Dykes (Athlone Town), Ernie McKay (St James’s Gate), Michael Farrell (St James’s Gate), Joe Kendrick (Brooklyn) [Frank Ghent (Athlone Town) vs Holland], Paddy Duncan (St James’s Gate), Denis Hannon (Athlone Town) and Johnny Murray (Bohemians).
FITZPATRICK, Sir Bernard Edward Barnaby (1848–1937), second Baron Castletown, landlord, soldier, sportsman and adventurer, was born on 29 July 1848 in London, only son and eldest of six children of John Wilson Fitzpatrick, first Baron Castletown, soldier and landlord, of Abbeyleix, Queen’s County (Laois), and Augusta Fitzpatrick (née Douglas) of Coote Hill, Co. Armagh. He … Read more
Sir,—Tom Mahon’s article on the visit of Kerry’s football team to America in 1927 (HI 18.5, Sept./Oct. 2010) was of great interest. I note that the final paragraph suggests that it was only in 1933 that another Kerry tour was proposed when ‘Connie Neenan wrote to Moss Twomey’. However, Kerry’s Football Story (copy in the … Read more