A fine representative of a generation of historians who laboured to enable today’s Ireland to engage honestly and maturely with its past in its multiple dimensions By Dan Mulhall The editor of History Ireland asked me to contribute an appreciation of the historian Ronan Fanning, who died on 18 January, because he was aware of … Read more
BY TONY CANAVAN A timely return A remnant of a 1916 Tricolour has been donated to Glasnevin Trust. The piece of the flag was handed over by the chief minister of the island of Jersey, having been donated by David Blake, great-grandson of Jersey native John Le Provost, a member of the Jersey ‘pals battalion’ … Read more
MARCH 09/1932Éamon de Valera, leader of Fianna Fáil, was elected president of the executive council of the Irish Free State. In the run-up to the meeting of the seventh Dáil it was widely rumoured that the outgoing W.T. Cosgrave Cumann na nGaedheal government would refuse to hand over power to the political movement that they … Read more
New research on Françoise Henry’s relationship with the Musée d’Archéologie Nationale in Saint-Germain-en-Laye By Peter Harbison Among Irish archaeologists and art historians, the name of Françoise Henry (1902–82) is best known for her trilogy on Irish art, which appeared in the 1960s. In 2012, appreciations of her life and work appeared in Barbara Wright and … Read more
Recent controversies about the use and misuse of electronic communications are nothing new. Not only did the 1916 Rising challenge the British Empire but it also challenged Britain’s supremacy of the airwaves. By Eddie Bohan The British controlled the European airwaves as the opening shots of the Great War echoed across the Continent; they cut … Read more