By Pat McCarthy Given the number of German airmen interned in Ireland during the Emergency, a Luftwaffe uniform in the National Museum’s collection is not unexpected. What is unusual about this one, however, is that it was made in Ireland. Even more unusual is the story of its owner, Arthur Klanke. He was born in … Read more
A brief history of the evolution of Chamber Choir Ireland. By Stuart Kinsella ‘Without music, life would be a mistake,’ runs Nietzsche’s pithy aphorism from his 1899 Twilight of the idols. This notion will doubtless also have run through the minds of many a musician during the global Covid-19 pandemic that has silenced churches, concert … Read more
The pioneering women in Irish legal history. By John Lucey In the 1880s women could study law in Ireland but were unable to practise. By the following decade the first women doctors were practising, but those wishing to work as barristers and solicitors would have to wait a further three decades to do so. Two … Read more
1890 Letitia Walkington and Frances Gray conferred Doctor of Laws (LLD). 1905 Margaret Byers (née Morrow) and Henrietta White awarded honorary LLDs. 1920 Frances Kyle and Averil Deverell first students admitted to the King’s Inns. Helena Early and Dorothea Heron granted leave to be bound as apprentices to solicitors by the court of examiners of … Read more
1923: Mary D. Heron Helena M. Early 1924: Dorothea M. Browne 1925: Maureen McDowell 1927: Eleanore D. Scholefield Annie J. Smyth Margaret A. Fisher Kathleen Donaghy 1928: Eugénie R. Houston (née Hoy) Annie K. O’Kane 1929: Clohra MacBride Berenice I. Tarrant Adelaide M. Quin Dorothy Fisher 1930: Mary U. Kearns Mary E. Smith Maria E.I. … Read more