Night Flight to Uli Concern films at the Irish Film Archive, Temple Bar by Tom Lodge Recently the NGO Concern donated a collection of its films, originally made for fund-raising purposes, to the Irish Film Archive. Originally ‘Africa Concern’, its formation in 1968 was prompted by Irish missionaries in Biafra at the time of its … Read more
As Catríona Crowe of the National Archives explained in the May/June 2008 issue of History Ireland, the 1901 and 1911 census returns for the entire island of Ireland have been available for public research for over 40 years. In outlining the National Archives programme for the digitisation of the 1911 census, Catríona detailed the type … Read more
The origins of Men of the South may be attributed to a meeting on 25 May 1921 between Albert Wood KC and the recently arrested Seán Moylan, commander of the 2nd North Cork Brigade of the IRA. Moylan was charged by a military court with ‘possession of arms and levying war against the Crown’ and … Read more
Danno O’Mahony was born on 29 September 1912 to Daniel and Susan O’Mahony at the family farm in Dreenlomane, Ballydehob, Co. Cork. He had six brothers and one sister. The parish priest was astonished when baptising Danno, saying that he was the strongest child he’d ever seen. As a boy he was abnormally large and … Read more
The Irish Prison Registers 1790–1924, held at the National Archives of Ireland, are one of the greatest untapped resources for tracing Irish ancestors. They contain over 130,000 pages which include nearly three million records of imprisonment providing a wealth of information on each prisoner, including name, address, place of birth, occupation, religion, education, age, physical … Read more