BY TONY CANAVAN Cromwellian bust-up Visitors to the Palace of Westminster recently may have noticed that a bust of Oliver Cromwell, situated in the House of Commons stairwell, has from time to time been turned to face the wall. Labour Party members posted the turned-about bust on social media, asking who had done it. Officials … Read more
An on-line exhibition plotting Irish women’s road to the vote, 1918. By Jane Maxwell The Library of Trinity College, Dublin, has taken a robust approach to the centenary of female suffrage with its collaborative on-line exhibition. As a repository for the kinds of unique original artefacts that allow history to be written, emphasis is placed … Read more
BY AODHÁN CREALEY MAY 10/1863 Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson (39), Confederate general in the American Civil War (1860–5), died from wounds inflicted by his own troops when they mistakenly shot him during a reconnaissance mission near Chancellorsville eight days previously. Formerly a professor at the Virginia Military Institute, Jackson earned his sobriquet for his dogged … Read more
By Fergal Browne This year marks the 220th anniversary of the 1798 United Irishmen’s Rebellion and the Battles of Monasterevin and Prosperous. On the weekend of 19–20 May 2018, re-enactments of the Battle of Monasterevin will be held in that town. On Sunday 27 May the community of Prosperous, Co. Kildare, will come together to … Read more