Issue 3 (May/June 2014)

Dublin’s Protestant population

In the city of Dublin in 1911 less than 20% of the population were Protestant; more startling is that the suburbs of Glasthule and Pembroke were each over 30% Protestant, Kingstown East was 35% and Rathmines East and West both almost 40%, while the Monkstown ward actually had a Catholic minority. In terms of employment, … Read more

‘Authentic historians’

President Michael D. Higgins’s recent state visit to the UK completed the second half of the diplomatic choreography initiated by Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to Ireland three years ago. At every level it was a triumph, symbolising the friendship and good neighbourliness of two equal and sovereign peoples, a sovereignty in Ireland’s case hard-won by … Read more