Museum of London 150 London Wall, London EC2Y 5HN +44 (0)870 443851 www.museumoflondon.org.uk Mon.–Sat. 10am–5.50pm, Sun. 12 noon–5.50pm by Tony Canavan The Museum of London is housed in a relatively new building, specially constructed for it. In the spacious reception area you are greeted by a large satellite photograph of London, giving you an idea … Read more
Ireland’s Nazis RTÉ 1, Tuesday 9 & 16 January 10.15pm Hidden Histories Presented by Cathal O’Shannon for Tile Films by Eamon O’Flaherty The Second World War and the Holocaust are very much alive, even 60 years after the end of the war. Cathal O’Shannon joined the RAF as a teenager towards the end of the … Read more
WHALEY, Thomas (‘Buck’) (1766–1800), politician and rake, was born on 15 December 1766, son of Richard Chapel Whaley, a wealthy landowner and notorious priest-hunter of Whaley Abbey, Co. Wicklow, and his second wife Anne, daughter of Revd Bernard Ward. On his father’s death in 1769 Thomas—the second, but eldest surviving, son—succeeded to his father’s estates, … Read more
This year, 2007, marks the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Ernie O’Malley, and it is almost 110 years since his birth in Ellison Street, Castlebar. He spent only eight years there, where his father, Luke, an official with the Congested Districts Board, was a supporter of the Irish Parliamentary Party, the typical Irish Catholic … Read more
March 2007 marks the centenary of the death of John O’Leary, immortalised in the refrain of W. B. Yeats’s ballad ‘September 1913’. Owen McGee poses the question: can this ‘Romantic Ireland’ that Yeats spoke of be historically defined, and why did he associate it particularly with O’Leary? Yeats evidently equated the death of ‘Romantic Ireland’ … Read more