Seán Murphy reports on a recent Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland symposium. Some 50 interested individuals gathered in Dublin’s City Hall in Dame Street on the evening of Wednesday 25 September to remember a figure who has hitherto been somewhat historically neglected. This is Charles Lucas, the County Clare-born apothecary, author, municipal reformer, radical … Read more
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
November 2 Sat 9.30am Irish Labour History Society Annual Conference, ILHS Museum, Beggar’s Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4. The Lockout in context, Brendan Byrne, Joan Burton, Gary Granville, Emmet O’Connor, Luke Dineen, Conor McCabe, John Cunningham, Theresa Moriarty, Mary Muldowney, Anne Matthews, Caitriona Crowe, Charles Callan. 2 Sat 10.30am Church of Ireland Historical Society, Christ … 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