On this Day

March 01/1965 The remains of Sir Roger Casement, hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, for high treason in 1916, were buried with full military honours in the Republican plot in Glasnevin Cemetery after a state funeral. 05/1965 Helen Waddell, Tokyo-born and Queen’s University Belfast-educated medievalist and writer, notably of Peter Abelard (1933), died. 07/1965 Civil rights … Read more

Sidelines

Last year I highlighted the case of Newry attempting to reclaim the Carvill Papers from Paterno Library, State College, Pennsylvania. A petition to that effect was ignored by the library but an imaginative ambush has turned things around. Pennsylvania were one of the two American football teams playing in Croke Park on 28 August last … Read more