By Dermot Scott It may seem strange that there should have been a connection in the early nineteenth century between Ramelton, a small provincial town in north-west Ireland, and a Caribbean island. In early 1825 Revd Edward Reid, minister of Ramelton Presbyterian Church, despairing of finding local career opportunities for his numerous family, decided to … Read more
By Tom Sigafoos On 22 September 1884, HMS Wasp, a Banterer-class gunboat of the Royal Navy, ran onto the rocks at the foot of the Tory Island lighthouse, broke apart and sank a few minutes before 4 a.m. Forty-six crewmen and four officers drowned. Five men scrambled up the mast and dropped to safety on … Read more
As we move into the ‘difficult’ bit of the ongoing ‘decade of centenaries’—the Treaty split and the Civil War—Joe Coy (Letters, p. 14) reminds us that ‘the Irish Civil War was a very restrained event by international standards’. There was little retaliation against the losing side, who by late 1924 could avail of an amnesty; … Read more
By Joseph E.A. Connell Seán Mac Eoin, commander of the Longford ‘flying column’, one of the IRA’s most effective, was imprisoned in Mountjoy Prison in March 1921 and thereafter Michael Collins devised several attempts to free him. The first was when Collins had a friendly priest see Mac Eoin, and in the middle of … Read more
NOEL BRADY and SANDRA O’CONNELL (eds) O’Brien Press/Royal Institute for Architects in Ireland €29.99 ISBN 9781788491679 Reviewed by Joseph Brady Joseph Brady is Adjunct Associate Professor of Geography at University College Dublin. Dublin by design: architecture and the city is a very welcome addition to studies of the development of the city. Including the introduction … Read more