By Fiona Fitzsimons Between the 1860s and the 1930s, over 100,000 child and juvenile emigrants were sent from the UK to Canada, Australia and New Zealand as part of the ‘Home Child Scheme’. Most Home Children were aged from seven to fourteen, although we find much younger children from two years upwards as well as … Read more
By Dennis Kennedy A photo recently in the Irish Times of the MV Naomh Eanna languishing on her side in Dublin’s Grand Canal Basin evoked memories of my first visit to Inisheer in 1965. Then the boat was most people’s only means of getting to and from the island, as it was for all goods … Read more
By Tim Murtagh and Stephen Scarth This article, the fourth in a series arising from the ‘Beyond 2022’ project, marks the centenary of the birth of the PRONI in the aftermath of the Four Courts fire of 1922. In June 1922, the opening engagement of the Civil War resulted in the destruction of the Public … Read more
By Paul Hughes From the meadows of the midlands to the corridors of Westminster, and from the gridded streets of Chicago to the Argentine pampas, few prominent figures of the Irish revolution enjoyed a reputation as in equal parts local, national and global as Laurence Ginnell, who died 100 years ago in April 1923. Born … Read more
By David Joyce ‘Travelling community’ is used as an all-encompassing term in Ireland to describe a traditionally nomadic community that has a significant degree of internal diversity. Encompassed within the term are distinct groups, namely Mincéirí or Pavee and Romani travellers. Mincéirí or Pavee are used interchangeably as a self-descriptive term by Irish Travellers; Romany/Romani … Read more