Nick Maxwell JULY 02/1850 Sir Robert Peel (62), founder of the Conservative Party and British prime minister, died. In nationalist Ireland Peel would perhaps be best remembered as Daniel O’Connell’s nemesis, the man with the chilling smile ‘like the silver plate on a coffin’ who was forced to concede Catholic Emancipation (1829), who suppressed the Repeal movement … Read more
By Denis Fahey When a British monarch dies, an Accession Council, consisting mainly of members of the Privy Council, assembles to proclaim the successor, and so, on 10 September 2022, Prince Charles was declared to be king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of his other realms and territories. The … Read more
In this issue, and in this year, the 175th since the ‘first’ flying of the Irish tricolour from the Wolfe Tone Confederate Club in Waterford on 7 March 1848, Sylvie Kleinman (pp 16–17) outlines the slightly more complicated evolution of the flag over the previous 50 years. She also reminds us that Thomas Francis Meagher … Read more
Organised labour had played a leading role (strikes, boycotts etc.) in the Irish revolution, and that was reflected in a substantial vote in the June 1922 general election. Yet a year later that vote had almost halved. Why? Join History Ireland editor Tommy Graham in discussion with Adrian Grant, Brian Hanley, Theresa Moriarty and Emmet O’Connor. The Hedge School series of podcasts is produced by History … Read more
Are historians visually illiterate? Does colourisation bring old photographs to life or is it just a passing fad? ‘Coffee-table’ history books—good or bad? In conjunction with the ongoing People & Places: Ireland in the 19th & 20th centuries exhibition at the National Photographic Archive, these are some of the questions that will be posed by editor, Tommy Graham, … Read more