Linen Hall Library to launch major new digital archive The Linen Hall Library is the oldest library in Belfast and the last subscribing library in Ireland. Since 1968, the Linen Hall has sought to collect all printed material relating to the conflict in Northern Ireland. The library has since become the repository for a vast … Read more
BY TONY CANAVAN WHAT LIES BENEATH? Now that, after four years, Dublin’s Luas Cross City (LCC) project is completed, we can take a step back and consider it. One aspect of the LCC works was that it gave archaeologists an amazing opportunity to explore what lies beneath the streets of Dublin. Teams of archaeologists worked … Read more
A new exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland. By Donal Maguire In April 1917, Irish painter William Orpen (1878–1931) went to France as an official war artist, serving with the British Army during the First World War. Soon after his arrival Orpen visited the Somme, the site of one of the war’s most significant … Read more
By AODHÁN CREALY JANUARY 21–23/1879 The Battle of Isandlwana/Rorke’s Drift. For many, the six-month Zulu War, prompted by the invasion of King Cetshwayo’s independent kingdom by British colonial forces under Lord Chelmsford, is viewed through the prism of the 1964 movie Zulu, which portrayed, with considerable artistic licence, the epic defence of a mission station—named … Read more