Angélique Day, Glimpses of Ireland’s past: the Ordnance Survey memoir drawings: topography and technique (Royal Irish Academy, €30 pb, 350pp, ISBN 9781908996459). Garret Fitzgerald, Irish primary education in the early nineteenth century: an analysis of the first and second reports of the Commissioners of Irish Education Inquiry, 1825–6 (Royal Irish Academy, €35 hb, 180pp, ISBN … Read more
Town Hall, the Castle, Bangor, Co. Down www.northdownmuseum.com museum@northdown.gov.uk North Down Museum recently celebrated its 30th year and it is one of the most successful local museums in Ireland. It is historic in itself, being situated in converted outbuildings of Bangor Castle. The museum covers a number of themes on the history and heritage of … Read more
El Zorrero Films RTÉ1, Dec. 2014 Gallery of Photography, Meeting House Square, Dublin 2, 29 Nov. 2014–8 Jan. 2015 Ciarán Deeney & David Clarke, Man on the bridge: the photos of Arthur Fields (Collins Press, ?24.99 hb, 240pp, ISBN 9781848892170) By John Gibney Man on the bridge illustrates how simple ideas are often the best … Read more