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
MAY 01 Tues 1pm Irish Georgian Society, 58 South William St., Dublin 2. Historic doors and staircases: their history and conservation, Peter Clarke. Adm. €15. 01 Tues 8pm Kilmacanogue History Society, Glenview Hotel, Glen of the Downs, Delgany. The Irish showband phenomenon, Frank Darcy. Adm. €3. 08 Tues 1pm Irish Georgian Society, 58 South William … Read more
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr On 18 April 1918 the Hon. Laurence O’Neill, lord mayor of Dublin, convened a national conference in the Mansion House. All sections of ‘nationalist’ opinion were to form the ‘National Cabinet’. The Irish Parliamentary Party was represented by Joe Devlin and John Dillon, Sinn Féin by Éamon de Valera and … 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