BY JOHN GIBNEY SEPTEMBER 19/1880 The nationalist leader and MP Charles Stewart Parnell gave a speech in Ennis, Co. Clare, that ultimately led to the addition of a new word to the English language. Parnell asked his listeners: ‘What are you to do to a tenant who bids for a farm from which another tenant … Read more
By Michael Davies On 27 February 2023, the day the Windsor Framework was agreed between the UK and the EU with the encouragement of US President Joe Biden, 200 high school students from eight European countries met in Maynooth University to debate Irish history. They did so in a spirit of openness and mutual respect, … Read more
By Brian Smyth A plaque was unveiled on 3 April 2023 in Creeslough, Co. Donegal, to commemorate the pioneering computer programmer Kay McNulty. It was unveiled by her granddaughter, Naomi Most, who travelled from the United States for the event. Naomi remembered her grandmother as a determined, dynamic and brilliant woman who thought in a … Read more
While the public have been rightly appalled at the recent unprovoked attack on an American tourist on Dublin’s Talbot Street, some of the commentary, suggesting that some parts of the north inner city are ‘no-go areas’, bordered on the hysterical. In fact, overall statistics for violent crime, both nationally and for Dublin city, have been … Read more
RICHARD BOURKE and NIAMH GALLAGHER (eds) Cambridge University Press £22.99 ISBN 9781108799133 Reviewed by Brian Hanley Brian Hanley is Assistant Professor of Twentieth-Century Irish History at Trinity College, Dublin. ‘When we were little children Johnnie Redmond was a fool, He bade us to be happy with something called Home Rule, But we’ve learned a thing … Read more