Louth County Museum Jocelyn Street, Dundalk Monday–Saturday 10.30am–5.30pm Sunday 2pm–6pm by Tony Canavan Located in a renovated warehouse in the heart of Dundalk, since it opened in 1994 the Louth County Museum has won a number of awards, including Museum of the Year in 1995 and 1999. It is also one of the few such … Read more
Our incurably violent neighbour Channel Four Blood on our hands: the English Civil War, 10 Feb. 2005 Directed by Tim Kirby for Mentorn Oxford Oliver Cromwell: New Model Englishman, 12 Feb. 2005 Directed by Paul Sen for Wall to Wall Television by Eamon O’Flaherty In recent years Channel Four has produced some very good programming … Read more
Allan I. MacInnes and Jane Ohlmeyer (eds). (Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2002, E55.) ISBN 1851825320 ‘British’ history tends to come in books of essays. The notion that the kingdoms of England, Ireland and Scotland (and Wales) interacted to various degrees might seem obvious, but the tendency to look at relationships between the two islands and … Read more
Almost 350 years ago the Farrells of Longford played a small but decisive role in European politics, in an incident that tipped the balance of power on the Continent. The year was 1657 and the leaders of the Farrell sept were in exile with a body of soldiers from Longford who had fought together through … Read more
Vilified by her English adversaries as ‘a woman who hath imprudently passed the part of womanhood’, Grace O’Malley was ignored by contemporary chroniclers in Ireland, yet her memory survived in native folklore. Nationalists later lionised her as Gráinne Mhaol, a warrior who would come over the sea with Irish soldiers to rout the English. She … Read more