By Fiona Fitzsimons In May 1709, c. 13,000 Palatine refugees arrived in England. They were artisans and small farmers from the regions of Baden, Hesse and the Rheinish Palatinate (present-day […]
Read More →By Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh Eighty-one years after his death, William Patrick Ryan is still best remembered for editing a newspaper that was denounced by the head of the Catholic Church […]
Read More →By Michael de Nie The Irish Land War (1879–82) was an economic, political and social conflict contested on multiple fronts. One of these fronts was the popular press, as newspapers […]
Read More →By Niamh O’Sullivan The doctored eviction image shared by Sinn Féin’s housing spokesman Eoin Ó Broin, originally executed in 2021 by the artist Adam Doyle, a.k.a. Mála Spíosraí/Spice Bag, was […]
Read More →By Henry A. Jefferies Generations of students have learned about ‘Silken Thomas’ FitzGerald and his ill-fated rebellion of 1534/5 but were taught nothing about the involvement of his foster-mother, his […]
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