Papers are invited for the eleventh Ulster-American Heritage Symposium,jointly sponsored by the Ulster-American Folk Park and the Universityof Ulster, to be held at the Ulster-American Folk Park on 8-10 August1996. The symposium will be concerned with all aspects of emigrationfrom Ulster to North America: the religious groups which took part inthe process of migration and … Read more
The Department of History, University of Aberdeen, announces a majorconference, History at the margins: Scottish and internationalperspectives on women from 29 June to 1 July 1996, which will examinethe experience of women and women’s history in geographically‘peripheral’ areas of Europe such as Scotland, Ireland, Spain andScandinavia. Speakers include: Ida Bloom (University of Bergin) oncomparative aspects … Read more
To commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the foundation of theGarda Síochána, a historical society has been established. Its firstnewsletter appeared in July 1995 and a winter lecture series is alreadyunderway. Hon. Secretary, Sgt. John Duffy is eager for all suggestionsand he hopes that the society will engage the attention of both servingand retired members of … Read more
No Taoiseach. No British prime minister. No armed security. No jostlinghordes of press. Not even one international jurist was presentyesterday to witness the decommissioning ceremony in a south Dublinhouse. There was just one weapon, bearing little resemblance to a late20th-century Armalite. ‘Destroyer’ read the inscription on the barrel.Wrapped in tissue and blue cardboard, the .32 … Read more
One of the most carefully fostered aspects of the image of the Catholic priest is that he is without a wife. Indeed, this image has been built up by the church administration as an essential part of its own esprit de corps. In recent centuries, certainly since clerical problems in mid-eighteenth-century France, church authorities have … Read more