Joe Culley @TheRealCulls Like most of us, I suspect, you think of the Irish Sea as ‘ours’. After all, it’s named for us. We happily, unconsciously, ignore the fact that Wales (never mind England) has a coastline nearly as long as ours dipping beneath it and that the Welsh might indulge some proprietary claim to … Read more
Kilmainham Gaol By Donal Fallon On a recent (and regular) walking tour of the Kilmainham and Inchicore area delivered by historian Fergus Whelan from nearby Richmond Barracks, he joked of how the restoration of Kilmainham Gaol had become a little bit like the GPO on Easter Week 1916. Everyone, allegedly, was in there. The hard … Read more
THE AGREEMENT (2 parts) RTÉ1, 3 and 4 April 2023 LYRA Channel 4, 15 April 2023 By Sylvie Kleinman The Agreement, a richly detailed documentary, minutely deconstructs in its first episode the intense context and protracted progress of the negotiations that led to the signing of the Good Friday Agreement on 10 April 1998. The … Read more
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr The 1923 general election was held on Monday 27 August and was the first since the adoption of the Irish Free State constitution on 6 December 1922. It was contested under the Electoral Act (1923), which increased the number of seats in the Dáil from 128 to 153. Lax electoral … Read more
By Karel Kiely Local authority archives consist of the records of local government, including those of the various bodies which existed prior to the establishment of the present county councils in 1899. Other material, however, may be acquired or deposited, including estate, business and private papers. One such collection relating to the families of Shackleton, … Read more