RTÉ1, 31 July 2023 Directed by Alan Gilsenan By Brian Trench In the opening clip of this documentary, Noël Browne is a guest on RTÉ’s Late Late Show and the host, Gay Byrne, takes a call from a woman who confesses that she once tore down Browne’s election posters on the urging of the nuns … Read more
By Lorraine McCann Amongst the array of documents found in the Louth County Archives are several registers of licences spanning the 1917–50 period created under the Cinematograph Act, 1909. This act, introduced in the United Kingdom, was primarily concerned with the safety of buildings to be used as cinemas as a consequence of fires in … Read more
By Gabriela Lojewska and Philip McEvansoneya The exhibition of Polish art that took place in Dublin in 1937 was a doubly significant event. First, it was an episode in the wider campaign of the new Polish state, the Second Republic, founded in 1918, to mark its arrival on the international stage as an independent nation … Read more
By Gerry Finnegan Membership of the League of Nations was the first major foreign policy objective of the new Irish Free State, achieved 100 years ago on 10 September 1923. With it came membership of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). An important yet unheralded figure in this achievement was Waterford-born Edward Joseph Phelan (1888–1967), head … Read more
QF 12-POUNDER COASTAL DEFENCE GUNS By Lar Joye Under the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, Britain turned over almost all military facilities in southern Ireland to the Irish Defence Forces, but the Royal Navy retained the use of three deep-water ports at Cobh, Berehaven and Lough Swill (the so-called ‘Treaty Ports’) and British soldiers remained in Ireland … Read more