In 1969 a 26-year-old Belfast boy with a distinguished undergraduate record applied for a lectureship at the University of Durham. Robin Frame was then at work on his doctoral dissertation in Trinity College, Dublin, and had one published article to his name. That might have been one article too many for H.S. Offler, then professor … Read more
In June 1518 a fleet carrying the Archduke Ferdinand from Spain to the Low Countries was blown off course and arrived in Kinsale. One member of that expedition, Laurent Vital, has left us a hidden history of the Irish in a series of fascinating, risqué and controversial scenes and stories that illuminate Ireland on the … Read more
The federal subpoena served on 5 May 2011 on the John J. Burns Library of Boston College established that events occurring as long ago as December 1972 have the capacity to destabilise variously the academic, legal and political affairs of the present. Assumptions that the First Amendment of the US Constitution would guard against this … Read more
March 4 1972 Two people were killed and a further 136 were injured when the Provisional IRA bombed the Abercorn Restaurant in Belfast. 9 1932 The seventh Dáil Éireann assembled. Eamon de Valera formed the first Fianna Fáil government with the backing of the Labour Party. 11 1812 William Wallace, violinist and composer, born in … Read more
cross 1 A celebrated chalice was discovered here in 1868 (6). 4 This hospital was founded in 1839 to care for sick Protestants (8). 9 He served as Church of Ireland archbishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland in the seventeenth century (6). 10 Ian Smith served as its prime minister from 1964 to … Read more