SCOTT, John (1739–98), first earl of Clonmel, lawyer and MP, was born 8 June 1739, third son of Thomas Scott, Church of Ireland vicar of Urlings, Co. Kilkenny, and his wife Rachel (née Prim) of Johnswell, Co. Kilkenny. During his early education at Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Scott protected Hugh Carleton, later Lord Viscount Carleton, from … Read more
During Ireland’s ‘golden years’ at the United Nations in the late 1950s Dublin firmly supported decolonisation and the newly independent African states then joining the UN. Ireland prided itself upon never having sought to dominate another people for colonial greed. Yet a May 1938 letter from Joseph Walshe, contained in the recently published fifth volume … Read more
Bob Collis was the son of William, a lawyer who had been born without property, despite coming from a line of landed Anglo-Irish gentry and medical professionals, but who by stern economy had made enough money to purchase a sizeable portion of Killiney Hill, just south of Dublin. William Collis was a staunch exponent of … Read more
The sky did not fall. Following more than five years of planning and two years of teaching, the new Leaving Certificate history syllabus faced its first practical test in the examining session of summer 2006. And, despite the grumblings of indifferent sceptics and the dire warnings of its open opponents, nothing calamitous happened. There had … Read more