Michael English, The three castles of Dublin: an eclectic history of Dublin through the evolution of the city’s coat of arms (Dublin City Council/Four Courts Press, €26.95 hb, 272pp, ISBN […]
Read More →GPO Witness History O’Connell Street, www.gpowitnesshistory.ie Revolution 1916 Ambassador Theatre, Parnell Square, www.revolution1916.ie Kilmainham Gaol Museum www.kilmainhamgaolmuseum.ie By Tony Canavan The new permanent exhibition at the GPO certainly shows […]
Read More →ANU Productions Moore Street, Dublin 1, 19 April–7 May 2016 By the time this review appears, the centenary commemoration of the Easter Rising will have been and gone, and in […]
Read More →‘HERE … WILL BE TRAINED THE WOMEN WHO WILL ASSIST IN BUILDING HAPPY HOMES, FOR HERE WILL BE IMPARTED RIGHT KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE OF HOME-CRAFT.’—ARCHBISHOP JOHN CHARLES McQUAID AT THE […]
Read More →The notion that a woman’s primary responsibility to society was to be a home-maker was encompassed in the founding ethos of St Mary’s College. Indeed, to underline this point, the […]
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