BY TONY CANAVAN War in a border county Monaghan County Museum has opened a new exhibition on the county’s role in the War of Independence. The museum’s own War of Independence files include more than 500 pages of firsthand accounts from Monaghan IRA veterans, which were gathered in the run-up to the 50th anniversary of … Read more
By Joe Buckley An Post’s stamp commemorating Ireland’s War of Independence features Seán Keating’s Men of the South. The original work hangs in the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork. Keating painted two associated sketches, both featuring Seán Moylan, leader of the North Cork flying column: one entitled 1921—An I.R.A. Column, which hangs in Áras an Uachtaráin, … Read more
BY AODHÁN CREALEY MAY 19/1935 T.E.—Thomas Edward—Lawrence (46), the legendary ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, died as a result of a motorcycle accident in Dorset. For much of his adult life Lawrence was a troubled man. Though his key role in the British-inspired Arab revolt (1916) against Ottoman Turkish rule earned him international celebrity, he was … Read more
The new Butler Gallery at the Evans’ Home, Kilkenny City. By Evelyn Graham Kilkenny County Council have a proud record of protecting their built heritage. The delivery of the Evans’ Home project in collaboration with the Butler Gallery will add yet another example of the adaptive reuse of a historic building with the added … Read more