BY TONY CANAVAN A SMASHING YEAR Interest in RMS Titanic shows no sign of waning, if Titanic Belfast, the visitor centre commemorating the building of the fabled ship, is anything to go by. It celebrated its fifth birthday recently with another record-smashing year as the city’s signature tourism project. Since opening in 2012, it has … Read more
Sir,—Your readers may be able to assist in my search for information. I am a published deaf author of two historical books: Deaf heritage in Canada: a distinctive, diverse, and enduring culture (1996) and Samuel Thomas Greene: a legend in the nine-teenth century deaf community (2005). During the course of my research I became interested … Read more
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr The Rising had hardly been the work of a massive conspiracy, but the British acted as if it were. British security forces arrested 3,430 Irish men and 79 women, of whom 1,841 were sent to Britain and interned there. These were substantial figures in relation to the scale of the … Read more
NOVEMBER 01 Tues 8pm Kilmacanogue History Society, Glenview Hotel, Delgany. Seán O’Casey and the 1916 Rising, Joe Mooney. Adm. €3. 03 Thur 2pm National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street. Public tour: The life and works of William Butler Yeats. 03 Thur 7pm Irish Art Oslo (in assoc. with the Irish Embassy), Grand Hotel, Oslo, Norway. … Read more
ELLEN ROWLEY (ed.) Dublin City Council/Four Courts Press/University College Dublin €22.45 ISBN 9781902703442 Reviewed by: Mary Davies The population of Dublin city grew from just under 300,000 in 1900 to half a million half a century later, and More than concrete blocks is the first of three volumes commissioned by Dublin City Council Heritage Office … Read more