By Joseph E.A. Connell The Irish Bulletin, a Dublin newspaper edited by Desmond FitzGerald, was one of the most effective propaganda arms for the IRA/Volunteers during the War of Independence. It was published daily from 11 November 1919 until the Truce. On 19 June 1920, it reported the words of Lt. Col. Gerald Brice Ferguson … 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
‘As I write this, it is tonight a thousand years, and three hundred years, and fifty years since Jesus Christ was born; and it is now two years since the plague came to Ireland; and I am now twenty-one years old; and let anyone who reads these lines show mercy to my soul by saying … Read more