JANUARY 05 Thur 8pm Mount Merrion Historical Society, Community Centre, North Ave. Townships of south Dublin, Seamas Ó Maitiu. Adm. €4/students €2. 10 Tues 7pm Tallaght Historical Society, County Library, The Square. History of the Garda Síochána, Gerry Lovett. 10 Tues 8pm Kilmacanogue History Society, Glenview Hotel, Glen of the Downs. From horses to horsepower, … Read more
ALTHOUGH HE NEVER SET FOOT IN IRELAND, HE CONFIDENTLY PROCLAIMED HIS ETHNICITY By Marion R. Casey ‘No, he is not an Irishman. He was born in Ireland; but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse’ —Daniel O’Connell (referring to the duke of Wellington), Mullaghmast, 1843. Long ago O’Connell put his … Read more
Sir,—I was very interested in Damien McLellan’s ‘Reclaiming an Irish “Way of St James”’ (HI 24.3, May/June 2016), and especially in his listing of possible stops on the route that Irish pilgrims might have followed between Dublin and Waterford. In particular, his listing of Ballymore Eustace, Co. Kildare, as one potential stop rang some bells … Read more
BLACK ’47, WHICH COMMENCES SHOOTING SHORTLY, IS NOT THE FIRST FAMINE-THEMED FILM TO BE ENVISAGED By Bryce Evans This year marks the 80th anniversary of the publication of Liam O’Flaherty’s novel Famine, set during Ireland’s Great Hunger (1845–51). O’Flaherty’s literary contemporary Seán O’Faoláin called Famine ‘tremendous’, ‘biblical’, containing ‘a compression of emotion only to be … Read more
Sir,—In his letter in your last issue (HI 24.6, Nov./Dec. 2016) Colum Kenny states that he does not see Zionism as the natural antithesis to anti-Semitism. He states, too, that my belief for his assumption lies ‘in the eye of the beholder’ (myself). That is as maybe, but he provided evidence for my eye in … Read more