Editorial

NOVEMBER 01 Wed 8pm Rathmichael Historical Society, National School, Stonebridge Road, Shankill. Early medieval masons in Rathdown, Jason Bolton. Adm. €4. 03 Fri 1pm National Monuments and Buildings Record for Northern Ireland, Linen Hall Library, Belfast. The Ulster Scots Archaeological Project, Christina O’Regan and Fintan Walsh. 06 Mon 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, … Read more

The current situation in the Middle East reminds us of the ongoing toxic legacy of the Great War. In the secret Sykes–Picot Agreement of May 1916, in anticipation of the defeat of Ottoman Turkey, Britain and France, with the assent of Czarist Russia, carved up the Middle East into ‘spheres of influence’. After the war … Read more