There are certain parallels between the present Brexit crisis and our ongoing ‘decade of commemorations’. Just as now, a factor in the Home Rule crisis of 1912–14 was the parliamentary arithmetic in Westminster, where Redmond’s Irish Parliamentary Party held the balance of power. That only lasted until 1915, of course, when Unionists (both British and … Read more
MARCH 05 Tues 8pm Kilmacanogue History Society, Glenview Hotel, Glen of the Downs. My grandfather’s part in the Anglo-Irish Treaty, Tim Lynch. Adm. €3. 08 Fri 1.05pm National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street. International Women’s Day lecture: What did the women do anyway?, Liz Gillis. 08 Fri 8pm Military History Society of Ireland, Griffith College, … Read more
By Joseph E.A. Connell Constance Gore-Booth was born in 1868 to one of the largest landowning families in County Sligo, part of the Anglo-Irish gentry, whose control of the bulk of Irish land was a source of long-standing resentment to the Catholic Irish majority. At eighteen she became a débutante and enjoyed several ‘seasons’ in … Read more
January 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the Irish nationalist ballad The Foggy Dew. But who wrote it? By Eugene Dunphy Over the years a number of published works have attributed authorship of The Foggy Dew to a range of people. In 2004 the writer’s name was cited as ‘anonymous’. In 2005 his name was … Read more
An unpublished record of what was, to all intents and purposes, Ireland’s first diplomatic mission. By John Gibney The Royal Irish Academy’s Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) project publishes selected documents from a range of archives ‘which are considered important or useful for an understanding of Irish foreign policy’. The vast majority of these … Read more