IN THIS BUSY DECADE OF COMMEMORATIONS, LITTLE OR NO ATTENTION HAS BEEN PAID TO ONE SIGNIFICANT AREA OF IRISH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL LIFE By Dermot O’Doherty In the hope-filled days of the mid-1960s, the Irish government—in cooperation with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD, a key partner in many seminal policy reports and … Read more
By Tony Canavan Big award for Titanic Belfast Titanic Belfast was recently named Europe’s leading visitor attraction at the World Travel Awards, beating Paris’s Eiffel Tower, Barcelona’s La Sagrada Familia, Athens’s Acropolis, London’s Buckingham Palace, the Portuguese Ribeira do Porto and the Roman Colosseum to win the prestigious award. The Belfast attraction even beat Dublin’s … Read more
EXHIBITION AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND, KILDARE STREET By Fiona Reilly Radiant butterflies collected by Roger Casement in present-day Colombia greet visitors on entering a new exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street. Through the use of diverse and skilfully made objects collected and donated by Casement, museum letters and registers and … Read more
The 150th anniversary of the founding of Alexandra College, Dublin’s well-known school for girls, is being celebrated this year, and to mark the occasion the College, along with Lilliput Press, has released Pioneering Alexandrans, detailed biographical entries charting the lives and accomplishments of 77 Alexandrans, edited by Ronan Fanning. Whilst the book naturally pays tribute … Read more
JANUARY 01/1909 Claimants to the state pension under the terms of the Old Age Pensions Act (1908) received their first payments at post offices throughout the country. Charged with awarding pensions to men and women aged 70 or over, the Local Government Board (1872) had to contend with the fact that the statutory registration of … Read more