By Anna Rose Garvey Cultural traditions evolve over time and may need to adapt in response to a changing world. However, it is always interesting and enjoyable to recognise ourselves today in traditions from years ago. For this edition of IFI Film Eye, we explore a selection of Gael Linn’s Amharc Éireann (A View of … Read more
By Lar Joye The Irish Air Corps was created in early 1922 and saw combat during the Civil War. Like the rest of the Defence Forces, however, its budget was limited in the years prior to the Emergency (1939–45) and by 1936 it had only sixteen planes. In the build-up to the war this increased … Read more
By Fiona Fitzsimons The first-edition Ordnance Survey maps, 1837–46, were printed at the unprecedented scale of six inches to one mile. The maps provide the finest coverage of any nation this early in history and are a key source for family and local history. Here, however, rather than the maps, I’d like to focus on … Read more
By Damian Murphy Newbridge House was built for Charles Cobbe (1686–1765), who came to Ireland in 1717 as chaplain to the then lord lieutenant. He amassed a large estate on the Donabate peninsula by purchasing two adjoining parcels of land, the first measuring 490 acres, the second measuring 510 acres, in June 1736 and July … Read more
By Michael Byrne Research by Angus Mitchell into the life and work of Alice Stopford Green (1847–1929), ‘the passionate historian’ as R.B. McDowell called her, brought Mitchell to Durrow, Tullamore, Co. Offaly, in March 2024 to explore a monastic site that Green had visited in the company of the solicitor, antiquarian and nationalist Francis Joseph … Read more