BY AODHÁN CREALEY JANUARY 01/1892 Ellis Island, the US government’s busiest immigrant inspection station for over 60 years, officially opened. One can only speculate as to how Annie Moore (17) from Cobh, Co. Cork, came to be the first person processed. Newly arrived with her two brothers as steerage passengers on board the SS Nevada … Read more
By Helen Litton The Daly family of Limerick is noted in Irish history for having produced the Fenian John Daly, his nephew Edward, commandant of the Four Courts during the Easter Rising, and his niece Kathleen, who married Tom Clarke and went into politics after the execution of her husband and brother. However, two other … Read more
As we commemorate the centenary of the convening of the first Dáil Éireann on 21 January 1919, it is natural that we take stock of the performance of independent Ireland in the interim. The hope and idealism of that first meeting—with a Declaration of Independence, a Message to Free Nations and the adoption of a … Read more