Editorial

MARCH 05 Mon 6.30pm Engineers Ireland Heritage Society, 22 Clyde Road, Dublin 4. Cast-iron bridges, Ron Cox. 05 Mon 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Sq. S. Everything but the apothecary: recent archaeological excavations, Kevin Street, Dublin, Alan Hayden. 07 Wed 7pm Irish Association of Professional Historians, National Library of Ireland, Kildare … Read more

In his review of Fintan O’Toole’s Judging Shaw (Big Book, pp 60–1) Peter Gahan observes that ‘Shaw’s sceptical, questioning mode of thinking has become so much part of the intellectual air we breathe, the culture we imbue, as to have rendered him practically invisible: a victim of his own success as slayer of the idols … Read more