BITE-SIZED HISTORY

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

On this Day

BY AODHÁN Ó RAGHAILLIGH JULY 10/1992 Albert Pierrepoint (87), hangman, died.During much of the last century Pierrepoint was a household name on these islands. In fact, there were three Pierrepoints. First there was Henry Pierrepoint, who dispatched over 100 souls between 1901 and 1910 before being sacked for drunkenness. Then came his brother, Tom, followed … Read more

International O’Neill census launched

NOWADAYS, THE O’NEILL SURNAME IS ONE OF THE TOP TEN NAMES IN IRELAND. AN AMBITIOUS PROJECT INSTIGATED BY THE CURRENT GENERATION OF THE CLAN HOPES TO RECORD AS MANY OF THE O’NEILL FAMILIES AS POSSIBLE—OVER THE COMING YEAR—ACROSS THE GLOBE. The ancient clan claims descent from Conn Ceadcathach (Conn of the Hundred Battles), the second-century … Read more

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

By Tony Canavan The 1916 Roll of Honour on-line The 1916 Roll of Honour was created on the twentieth anniversary as the official state listing of the men and women who took part in the 1916 Rising. It is comprised of 45 pages with a total of 1,665 signatures of the survivors in 1936, along … Read more