RENAMING THE LIBRARY FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE BERKELEY

Sir,—After Trinity College Dublin’s Berkeley Library was stripped of its title (because the bishop-philosopher, and sometime college librarian, owned slaves and upheld the institution of slavery in early eighteenth-century colonial America), TCD’s Legacy Review Working Group invited online suggestions for a new name. Accordingly, in the conclusion to my ‘Platform’ piece, ‘Wolfe Tone today’ (HI … Read more

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

BY DONAL FALLON MNÁ NA hATHBHEOCHANA Good news from the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), where a new exhibition, Mná na hAthbheochana (‘Women of the Revival’), marks a significant milestone as the first Irish-language exhibition hosted by the institution. Telling the story of the women who were central to the foundation of the … Read more

LONG LIVE LIFE! CASIMIR MARKIEVICZ: A POLISH ARTIST IN BOHEMIAN DUBLIN

By Emily Mark-FitzGerald and Kathryn Milligan On a Paris evening in early 1899, two Polish friends arrived at a ball attended by fellow international art students, drawn to the hedonistic atmosphere of the fin-de-siècle city and its artistic charms. One of the young men—the writer Stefan Krzywoszewski—was struck by a young Irishwoman present, ‘who appeared … Read more

ON THIS DAY

BY AODHÁN CREALEY MAY 17/1349 ‘Seeing these many ills and how the whole world is, as it were, in an ill plight among the dead expecting death’s coming, I have set them down in writing, truthfully as I have heard them and tested them; and lest the writing should perish with the writer and the … Read more