BY TONY CANAVAN Time lost With all the attention on the centenaries of the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme, some other centenaries of Irish interest have been overlooked. For example, 100 years ago Ireland abandoned Dublin Mean Time and adopted Greenwich Mean Time. It seems that the British government decided to use … Read more
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON LIFE IN DUBLIN DURING A TIME OF WAR AND REVOLUTION The Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) Arrest or Prisoners’ Books for 1905–7 and 1911–18 are amongst the most valuable new records to come to light from the revolutionary era. The collection comprises four large, leather-bound, double-ledger volumes containing handwritten entries that record the … Read more
NOVEMBER 14/1622 Milar Magrath (aged c. 100), clerical rogue, died. A Franciscan friar who married and fathered nine children, a Catholic bishop who turned Anglican and accumulated a portfolio of bishoprics—famously sitting as both a Catholic and an Anglican bishop over a nine-year period—and a collaborator with Elizabeth I’s anti-Catholic regime, Magrath was a supreme … Read more
By Damien McLellan Recently I set about locating the church—or, more realistically, the site of the church—that Henry II was said to have founded in Waterford City in atonement for his part in the murder of Thomas à Becket, his former close friend before he appointed him archbishop of Canterbury in 1162 (see ‘Reclaiming an … Read more