For the second general election in a row I find myself in the difficult position of editorialising in a vacuum: we go to press before the poll but arrive on the news-stands after the result is known. Last time out it wasn’t difficult to predict that Enda Kenny would be taoiseach. A similar result is … Read more
MARCH 03 Thur 1pm National Museum, Kildare Street. Beating the retreat? The final hours of the Rising in Moore Street, Franc Myles. 03 Thur 7pm DLR 1916 Rising Committee, dlr Lexicon, Moran Park, Dún Laoghaire. Captain Jack White, Leo Keohane. 03 Thur 7pm Trinity College Dublin and Glasnevin Trust, Glasnevin Cemetery Museum. From shoebox to … Read more
March 01/1976 Secretary of State Merlyn Rees announced the ending of special- category status for political prisoners in Northern Ireland. 04/1966 Capital punishment was abolished in Northern Ireland, except for political murders. 06/1918 John Redmond (62), leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party since 1900, died. 07/1936 German troops occupied the Rhineland in defiance of the … Read more
January 03/1946 William Joyce (39), Nazi propagandist known as ‘Lord Haw-Haw’, was hanged for treason in Wandsworth Jail. 05/1976 John A. Costello (84), barrister, attorney general of Ireland (1926–32) and taoiseach (1948–51, 1954–7), died. 06/1066 Harold II (Godwinson) was crowned king of England in succession to Edward the Confessor. He was the last Anglo-Saxon king … Read more
In this issue’s Platform (pp 10–11) Felix M. Larkin rightly takes successive governments to task for their philistine neglect of our national cultural institutions, and of the National Library in particular. Does he perhaps let righteous indignation get the better of him, however, in contrasting this niggardly approach with ‘the lavish spending of the Easter … Read more