Editorial

n Is Ireland becoming too secular? Is it really the noise that people object to, or the reminder that they’re still lying in bed when they should be in church? Complaints from neighbours have silenced the 130-year-old bells of St Bartholomew’s Church, Ballsbridge. It has a clock and a carillon, a multiple bell arrangement, which … Read more

Welcome to the 100th issue of History Ireland. Earlier in the year we celebrated the twentieth anniversary of its foundation in spring 1993 and with this November/December issue we have completed 21 volumes, so we’ve ‘come of age’. Much has changed over that period. For starters there is no longer a war going on in … Read more