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
The 1889 Light Railway (Ireland) Act was the first to provide government grants for the construction of railways, which had previously been the domain of private enterprise. This and subsequent acts of 1890 and 1896 brought the railway to remote, thinly populated districts which were considered commercially non-viable by the railway companies. £1,553,967 was spent … Read more