With the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty on 6 December 1921, with its subsequent ratification in Dáil Éireann on 7 January 1922, and with the establishment of a Provisional Government of the Irish Free State, responsibility for the administration of education in southern Ireland passed to it on 1 February 1922. Because political independence had … Read more
John Lynch talks to one of the most prolific Irish historians of recent years, Paul Bew, Professor of Politics at Queen’s University, Belfast. JL: Tell me about your background. PB: I was born in Belfast in 1950, the child of a mixed marriage. My parents were both doctors. My father was an RAF doctor during … Read more
The troubles of the last twenty five years have served to focus the minds of Ulster people on their history. They are more conscious than ever of their ancestors-Gaelic, Norman, English, Huguenot, Lowland Scot, Highland Scot. But that consciousness has neglected and all but forgotten one particularly influential immigrant group. Most often they are lumped … Read more
In 1913 Lord Northcliffe, proprietor of the Daily Mail, offered a prize of £10,000 for the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic by a ‘heavier than air’ machine. A seventy-two hour time limit was set under rules drawn up and administered by the Royal Aero Club. The competition was suspended for the duration of the … Read more
As Ireland’s historians have duelled through contentious and sometimes acrimonious debate in recent years about new research and revisions concerning Irish history, historians in the United States have been engaged in a transformation of studies about the past of the Irish in America. Their differences have not been so loudly declaimed or headlined as those … Read more