BY AODHAN CREALEY MARCH 03/1947 Carol Reed’s film noir Odd Man Out, set in post-war Belfast with James Mason in the title role, opened in the city’s Classic cinema, off Royal Avenue. A large number of RUC men, in uniform and in plain clothes, were on duty outside, partly because Inspector General (Chief Constable) Sir … Read more
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
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr John Edward Redmond was a barrister, a writer and a nationalist politician. He was an MP and was leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) from 1900 to 1918. He was, for the time, a moderate, constitutional and conciliatory politician, and he attained the twin dominant objectives of his political … Read more
Bridge over the River Tolka to be named after one of the ‘Forgotten Ten’. By Seán Ryan The recent decision by Dublin City Council to name the bridge over the Tolka in the north Dublin suburb of Drumcondra after Frank Flood is to be welcomed. Flood was executed by the British authorities for his part … 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