BY TONY CANAVAN Plans for the National Museum of Ireland Josepha Madigan TD, Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, recently launched the National Museum of Ireland’s (NMI) €85m, fifteen-year ‘master vision statement’ with extensive plans for the four museums in its charge. The Natural History Museum (a.k.a. the ‘dead zoo’) will be extended, … Read more
BY AODHÁN CREALEY SEPTEMBER 16/1937 Ten male seasonal potato-gatherers, aged 13–23 years, from Achill Island perished in a fire in Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow. The group had only arrived in the village the previous evening. The females were lodged in a cottage and the ten males in a nearby bothy, which was basically a cowshed, … Read more
By Michele O’Dea The rocky outcrop that dominates the Cashel skyline has been both a royal fortress and an episcopal seat, distinguished today by the ecclesiastical structures that date from the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The Rock of Cashel’s origins as a centre of power go back to the fourth or fifth century AD, when … Read more
By Felix M. Larkin The life and achievements of Nano Nagle (1718–84), outlined by Gillian O’Brien and Jessie Castle in the last issue (HI 26.4, July/August 2018), are memorialised as far afield as Hobart, Tasmania. There, in St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral, Nagle is one of three Irishwomen included in a beautiful stained-glass window dedicated to … Read more