BY TONY CANAVAN Countess Markievicz goes to Westminster With no hint of irony, the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland, has donated a portrait of Constance Markievicz to the British Houses of Parliament for an exhibition to mark the 100th anniversary of some women in the United Kingdom being granted the vote—the point … Read more
BY AODHÁN CREALEY NOVEMBER 11/1958 The disappearance of Moss Moore (46), a bachelor farmer from Reamore, north of Tralee, Co. Kerry. During the summer of that year, Moss Moore’s neighbour, Dan Foley, erected a fence on what he considered to be the natural boundary of his land on a bleak Kerry mountainside. Moore, however, was … Read more
Victorian and modern prison regimes on Spike Island, Co. Cork. By Barra Ó Donnabháin Spike Island is dominated by a Napoleonic-era fortress that was used as a prison from 1847 to 1883, and again from 1985 to 2004. The Spike Island Archaeological Project was established in 2012 to examine the material remains of the Victorian … Read more
EPIC, the Irish Emigration Museum, collaborates with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to showcase the global Irish diaspora. By Angela Byrne In 2018–19 EPIC is working together with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to celebrate global Irish emigration through the centuries, and to enhance connections with the Irish diaspora today, … Read more