Malahide, Co. Dublin http://www.modelrailwaymuseum.ie By Tony Canavan As the COVID lockdown continues, Museum Eye again goes online to visit an exhibition. Among the more interesting offerings is the Casino Model Railway Museum. Its website is well laid out and straightforward. Although it is aimed at people who visit in person (with details of location, opening … Read more
BBC Four, February/March 2021 (six episodes) (first broadcast on BBC2 in 1971) By Hiram Morgan Glenda Jackson’s Elizabeth I is the quintessential portrayal of the sixteenth-century monarch, and what a performance! Jackson, aged 35 when the series was made in 1971, was equally convincing as the feisty red-haired teenage princess fending off the attentions of … Read more
The response to the Belfast blitzes of 1941. By Pat Poland By April 1941 the United Kingdom had been at war with Nazi Germany for over a year and a half. From the start, the authorities in Northern Ireland believed that they were geographically too far removed from the main action for it to have … Read more
In this, the second of three articles counting down to the centenary of the Four Courts fire in June 2022, the directors of Beyond 2022 examine the Public Record Office of Ireland and its 55-year history as a living institution. By Peter Crooks and Ciarán Wallace The destruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland … Read more
Arguments for the parliament of Southern Ireland, 1921. By M.C. Rast After years of organisation and effort by Irish nationalists, a Home Rule legislature opened in Dublin on 28 June 1921. It was not the great national assembly envisioned by leaders like Parnell and Redmond. Ironically, the small coterie of lawmakers were not nationalists at … Read more