Issue 6 (November/December 2021)

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

BY TONY CANAVAN Tom Clarke’s tobacconist shopfront to be restored The government has provided €50,000 for the conservation and restoration of 55 Amiens Street, Dublin, once home to Tom Clarke, signatory of the 1916 Proclamation. Clarke operated a tobacconist’s shop from the building from 1908 to 1911. The funding is being made available under the … Read more

Treaty spoiler alerts

For readers planning to attend or to tune into Staging the Treaty, Theo Dorgan’s restaging of the Treaty Debates (see pp 6–7), a spoiler alert—it ends badly. Within six months its terms would provoke a bitter civil war in what was to become the Irish Free State, and its other malign outcome—partition—is still with us … Read more