By T.K. Moloney In September 1919 a body lay in state in a coffin in a private house on the sloping Main Street of Killaloe, Co. Clare. A boy of six was brought in to view the body and pay his respects. He was a distant relative of the deceased, but the connection was cherished … Read more
By Daniel Mulhall I have often wondered where Arthur Griffith got the idea for his influential political tract The resurrection of Hungary, published in 1904. It led to the setting up the following year of the first Sinn Féin party, dubbed ‘the green Hungarian band’ by the caustic pen of Leader editor D.P. Moran. Griffith … Read more
By Eamon Darcy In the 1660s, as the English empire expanded into the Atlantic world, interest in the newly discovered territories sparked greater investigations of the flora, fauna and history of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh localities. Inspired by the famous English philosopher Francis Bacon, the Royal Society in London wanted to pursue a new … Read more
By David C. Mac Donagh DNA is being used for genealogy in various ways, but especially by taking men’s Y-chromosome data in combination with their modern surnames to correlate with historical genealogies. A lot of work has been done on this for several of the recorded Irish dynastic groups; the focus of this article is … Read more