Mid-Antrim Museum, The Braid, Ballymena, Mon.–Sat. 10am–4pm, until 30 September 2023 Mary Alice Macnaghten was born in 1867, the eldest child of the Rt Hon. Sir Francis Edward Workman-Macnaghten and Alice Mary Russell. They lived at Dundarave House, Bushmills, Co. Antrim. On 26 August 1893 Mary married William (‘Willie’) Robert Young, eldest son of the … Read more
JULY 02/1850 Sir Robert Peel (62), founder of the Conservative Party and British prime minister, died. In nationalist Ireland Peel would perhaps be best remembered as Daniel O’Connell’s nemesis, the man with the chilling smile ‘like the silver plate on a coffin’ who was forced to concede Catholic Emancipation (1829), who suppressed the Repeal movement … Read more
By Denis Fahey When a British monarch dies, an Accession Council, consisting mainly of members of the Privy Council, assembles to proclaim the successor, and so, on 10 September 2022, Prince Charles was declared to be king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of his other realms and territories. The … Read more
In this issue, and in this year, the 175th since the ‘first’ flying of the Irish tricolour from the Wolfe Tone Confederate Club in Waterford on 7 March 1848, Sylvie Kleinman (pp 16–17) outlines the slightly more complicated evolution of the flag over the previous 50 years. She also reminds us that Thomas Francis Meagher … Read more