AMONG THE MOST INFAMOUS EVENTS OF THE EASTER RISING WAS A SERIES OF MURDERS COMMITTED BY CAPTAIN J.C. BOWEN-COLTHURST. HIS MOST FAMOUS VICTIM WAS FRANCIS SHEEHY-SKEFFINGTON, SUMMARILY EXECUTED ON THE […]
Read More →By Fiona Fitzsimons Irish prisons were some of the first to make a photographic record of inmates before they were legally required to do so under the Habitual Criminals Act […]
Read More →THE LONELY PLANET GUIDE TO HAWAII RECOMMENDS A VISIT TO GREENWELL FARMS COFFEE PLANTATION AND THE ADJOINING ‘CLEVER MUSEUM’ CALLED H.N. GREENWELL STORE MUSEUM. VISITORS ARE SHOWN A TYPICAL GENERAL […]
Read More →THIS YEAR MARKS THE 800th ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF ONE OF ENGLAND’S MOST NOTORIOUS KINGS, AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ENGLISHMEN IN THE HISTORY OF IRELAND, KING JOHN. […]
Read More →By Damian Murphy The history of the Strokestown Park estate dates back to the sixteenth century and a castle destroyed in 1552 by Mac Diarmada. The present estate, however, began […]
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