Before Dr McCartan had set sail for his ill-fated assignment in Moscow it was becoming clear that the presence of his two Bolshevik contacts in America was no longer acceptable to the US government. The Palmer raids increasingly took their toll on American left-wing and pro-Soviet circles, and foreigners were especially targeted for arrest and … Read more
Born to British parents in Calais in 1821, Ford Madox Brown was educated at art schools in Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp and Paris before moving to London in 1846. In 1848 he received a letter from a young student at the Royal Academy asking whether he would consent to tutor him. Brown agreed and thus came … Read more
Charles O’Conor, a Catholic antiquarian in County Roscommon, saw the potential of print to disseminate a more accurate and flattering view of Ireland and thereby to swing opinion, in Britain and continental Europe, towards a relaxation of the notorious penal laws. He was probably unequalled in his competence to decipher and interpret Gaelic manuscripts. At … Read more
The Standing Council of Irish Chiefs and Chieftains and the Clans of Ireland (Fínte na hÉireann), in association with the History Department of Trinity College, Dublin, and History Ireland magazine, are offering a prize of €500 for the winning entrant in an essay competition on Gaelic Ireland. Entry is open to all persons over eighteen … Read more
(Those in bold are of the Church of Ireland succession) 1513 Muiris Ó Fithcheallaigh 1514 Tomás Ó Maolalaidh 1536 Christopher Bodkin* 1573 Uilliam Ó Maolalaidh [William Lally] 1580 Nicholas Skerrett 1583 Maol Muire Ó hUiginn 1591 Seamus Ó hÉilí 1595 Fearganainm Ó Domhnalláin** [Nehemiah Donelan] 1609 Uilliam Ó Domhnuill [William Daniel] 1609 Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire … Read more