A project designed to ensure that the history of the site is not forgotten. Grangegorman Histories is a public history project with the aim of uncovering, cataloguing and commemorating the eventful history of the Grangegorman area, situated between Phibsborough and Stoneybatter on Dublin’s north side. In 1773 the Dublin House of Industry was built in … Read more
BY AODHÁN CREALEY SEPTEMBER 14/1982 Princess Grace of Monaco (52) died, a day after suffering a stroke and crashing her car. Princess Grace, of course, was the former actress Grace Kelly, daughter of John B. Kelly Jr of Philadelphia, the affluent owner of a brickwork contracting company, and granddaughter of John Peter Kelly from Drimurla, … Read more
By James Kelly Anniversaries naturally lend themselves to reflection. It is appropriate, therefore, as Four Courts Press celebrates its 50th anniversary this year that its formative contribution to academic publication in Ireland generally, and to historical publication specifically, does not pass unnoticed. Founded in 1970 by Michael Adams, whose death in 2009 deprived Ireland of … Read more
In reviewing the contents of this issue (back to our usual 72 pages, by the way) I was struck by the complex relationship between the related but distinct categories of history and memory. Topics relating to the onging ‘decade of centenaries’ (Terence MacSwiney’s death on hunger strike, pp 32–4, p. 70; the Belfast pogrom, pp … Read more