By Rachel Granville 6 April 2019, Lot 13—reading the catalogue for an upcoming auction at Whyte’s, I saw with a mixture of excitement and consternation that a minute book for Clonmel Corporation for the years 1692–1711 would soon be coming up for auction. While there is no question that such records belong in public ownership … Read more
By Fiona Fitzsimons MIGRANT RETURN FROM THE US TO IRELAND 1850–1900 Historians have long maintained that one of the ways in which Irish immigrants to the US differed from others was the low rate of migrant return (Irish 6–10%; Scandinavians 20%; Italians 58%). In his last book, The Americanisation of Ireland, David Fitzpatrick revised … Read more
By Aaron Callan Revd James Godfrey MacManaway—or ‘JG’, as he was often known—was born in 1898, the son of the Rt Revd Dr James MacManaway, bishop of Clogher. He was educated at Campbell College and then Trinity College, Dublin. At the age of sixteen, whilst at Campbell College, he enlisted and fought at the Battle … Read more
By Lasara Lynch Fionán Lynch was born on 17 March 1889 in Waterville, Co. Kerry. Irish was his first language and he attended Rockwell College and Blackrock College. He planned to study medicine, but his father died suddenly and instead he went to teach Irish in a school in Swansea, Wales, where he founded a … Read more
The fate of Sir John Lavery’s ‘Irish history paintings’ exhibited at the Irish Race Congress in Paris in January 1922. By Billy Shortall On 28 January 1922, just two weeks after the Dáil acrimoniously ratified the Anglo-Irish Treaty, at a time when the new Irish state was unsure whether it had a viable future, the … Read more