Issue 3 (May/June 2015)

Judging by the massive public response to RTÉ’s ‘Road to the Rising’ event on Easter Monday on Dublin’s O’Connell Street (an estimated 50,000 turned out in bright sunshine), the answer to the rhetorical question posed by Brian Hanley in the last issue—‘Who fears to speak of 1916?’—is (apart from the ‘knaves’ and ‘slaves’ of the … Read more

MAY 33 Tues 8.30pm Kilmacanogue History Society, Glenview Hotel, Glen of the Downs. The GPO—200 years of history, Stephen Ferguson. Adm. €3. 7 Thur 11.30am RMS Lusitania centenary lecture, Bray Library, Eglinton Road. The last voyage of the RMS Lusitania, James Scannell. 7 Thur 6.30pm National Print Museum, Beggars Bush Barracks, Haddington Road. ‘The embrace … Read more