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Museum eye:Revenue Museum/Músaem Ioncaim Chapel crypt, Dublin Castle www.revenue.ie/en/about/revenue-museum.html, +353 (0)1 8635 601 Mon.–Fri. 10am–4pm by Tony Canavan

The Revenue Museum recently featured in a book about the government’s waste of taxpayers’ money but this seems an unfair criticism of an interesting and well-presented exhibition. Sited in the atmospheric crypt of Dublin Castle’s chapel, it occupies a small chamber that makes the best use of its space. As soon as you go through … Read more

TV eye:The story of Ireland BBC/RTÉ, February/March 2011 by John Gibney

The story of Ireland arrived on British and Irish television screens with considerable fanfare, the first comprehensive TV history of Ireland since Robert Kee’s Ireland: a history in 1981. Now, 30 years later, comes a multimillion-euro co-production between the BBC and RTÉ, filmed across the world and fronted by former BBC foreign correspondent Fergal Keane … Read more

Film eye: Congo—an Irish affair AkaJava Films by Eoin Dillon

Among the audience at the screening were a spattering of men, now in their sixties and early seventies, many accompanied by family members, who were there to see a film version of events in which they had participated 50 years previously. They did not have the appearance of battle-hardened veterans; rather they were slightly older, … Read more

No history, no future?

Some months ago Taoiseach Enda Kenny declared before President Obama and the world that the real wealth of Ireland was our history, our island story passed on from one generation to the next. It has sustained us in the past and will carry us on into a more prosperous future. And yet it is his government … Read more