Ulster-American Heritage Symposium

Papers are invited for the eleventh Ulster-American Heritage Symposium, jointly sponsored by the Ulster-American Folk Park and the University of Ulster, to be held at the Ulster-American Folk Park on 8-10 August 1996. The symposium will be concerned with all aspects of emigration from Ulster to North America: the religious groups which took part in … Read more

History at the margins

The Department of History, University of Aberdeen, announces a major conference, History at the margins: Scottish and international perspectives on women from 29 June to 1 July 1996, which will examine the experience of women and women’s history in geographically ‘peripheral’ areas of Europe such as Scotland, Ireland, Spain and Scandinavia. Speakers include: Ida Bloom … Read more

‘Pixilated’ pistol puts in a timely reappearance

By Lorna Siggins No Taoiseach. No British prime minister. No armed security. No jostling hordes of press. Not even one international jurist was present yesterday to witness the decommissioning ceremony in a south Dublin house.There was just one weapon, bearing little resemblance to a late20th-century Armalite. ‘Destroyer’ read the inscription on the barrel. Wrapped in … Read more

Celibacy in the Catholic Church: a brief history

Thomas O’Loughlin     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 … Read more