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
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
archive.waterwaysireland.org By Nuala Reilly Waterways Ireland has digitised its archive collections, making 200 years of waterways engineering history available to the public through their new digital archive, launched in the summer of 2021. One of the all-island North–South Bodies established under the Good Friday Agreement in 1999, Waterways Ireland is the navigation authority responsible … Read more
By Joseph E.A. Connell In September 1921 Eamon de Valera wrote to Prime Minister Lloyd George, confirming that a conference was to be set to negotiate a Treaty: ‘Our respective positions have been stated and are understood and we agree that conference, not correspondence, is the most practical and hopeful way to an understanding. We … Read more
SEAMUS DEANE Cambridge University Press €28 ISBN 9781108892810 Reviewed by Vona Groarke Vona Groarke is a poet and author. Her Link: poet and world will be published in October 2021 by the Galley Press. When the published essay seems, so often now, to have the qualifier ‘personal’ attached, it is as refreshing as it is … Read more