BY TONY CANAVAN Cultural vandalism vs city living In a surprising move, Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan has defended the ESB’s proposal to convert the Georgian House Museum in Dublin into luxury apartments. The minister has said that the project ‘has the potential to become an exemplar scheme for Dublin to demonstrate successful city … Read more
The Churchill bust in the Oval Office—or, to be precise, its absence—is exercising minds on both sides of the Atlantic once again. By Úna Ní Bhroiméil The bronze bust of Churchill commissioned by the British War Office in 1945 became a point of conflict initially in 2012 amid claims that President Obama had removed it … Read more
BY AODHÁN CREALEY MAY 26/1900 Luke Dillon, a leading light in the Fenian dynamite campaign (1881–5), was sentenced to life imprisonment along with two others for attempting to bomb the Welland Canal in Canada, an important shipping lane at the time for Britain, then embroiled in the Boer War. There was little in ‘Dynamite’ … Read more
www.dib.ie By Terry Clavin In March 2021, the Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) moved to an ‘open-access’ model, making its entire corpus of nearly 11,000 biographical entries freely available to all users through a new website at www.dib.ie. The DIB marked its move to open access by publishing a number of high-profile new entries online, … Read more
June 22nd is the centenary of the opening by King George V of the Northern Ireland parliament—perhaps the most symbolic of the successive steps that copper-fastened partition (the next was the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921, under whose terms Northern Ireland formally ‘opted out’ of the Irish Free State a year later, followed by the … Read more