By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls In the cover story of our previous edition, Laurence Geary explained that vaccination in Ireland is often said to have begun in Cork in 1800 when a local physician treated 300 children against smallpox. How appropriate, then, that Cork again features as ground zero in Strangling angel: diphtheria and childhood immunization … Read more
Kinsale, Co. Cork (021) 477 2263 charlesfort@opw.ie By Tony Canavan On a recent break in Kinsale, I took the opportunity to visit Charles Fort, which, along with the smaller James Fort, guards the entrance to the harbour of this historic town. From the outside the fort is impressive, but only once inside do you realise … Read more
RTÉ1, 26 October and 2 November 2021 By Donal Fallon In the ever-growing field of Museum Studies, much is written on outreach and the importance of museums taking their knowledge out of their own four walls and into broader communities. Over two parts, An tSlí demonstrated the manner in which the National Famine Museum at … Read more
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