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
To commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the foundation of the Garda Síochána, a historical society has been established. Its first newsletter appeared in July 1995 and a winter lecture series is already underway. Hon. Secretary, Sgt. John Duffy is eager for all suggestions and he hopes that the society will engage the attention of both … Read more
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
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 France, church … Read more
Kathleen Villiers-Tuthill 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 … Read more