Tom Garvin (UCD) was ‘very uneasy about it’ while Brendan McGahon TDspoke of ‘lurid imaginings’. These comments were made in a Sunday Timesarticle rubbishing the as yet unreleased Neil Jordan film about MichaelCollins. The article was entitled ‘Hollywood’s rewrite of Irish historyclouds peace process’. Although the peace process has in fact not beenclouded by either … Read more
Mayo North Family History Research Centre has won the annual MeidhealAward . Established in 1981 as the Crossmolina Historical Society, itsoon developed and set up a multi-faceted centre which included afamily history research unit and a Rural Artefacts Museum. The centrewas officially opened in April 1992 by President Mary Robinson andsince then has gone from … Read more
Cambridge University History Faculty, in association with HistoryIreland, is holding a one day symposium on The Irish Famine andMigration at Queens’ College, Cambridge on Sunday 31 March 1996. Thesymposium forms part of a series of world-wide events to commemoratethe 150th anniversary of the Great Irish Famine. Speakers will includeBrendan Bradshaw, Jim Donnelly, John Belchem, Robert … Read more
Papers are invited for a conference on Ideology and Ireland in theNineteenth Century to be held at UCG between 28 June and 30 June1996.Those wishing to contribute to the conference should send anabstract of not more than 300 words, before 1 March 1996 to Tadgh Foleyor Sean Ryder, Dept. of English, UCG, tel: (091) 524411, … Read more
The annual school’s competition in history just been launched. It isbeing organised by the Departments of Medieval and Modern History ofTCD in conjunction with the Irish Times. The closing date for thisyear’s competition is Monday 15 April and the application forms andconditions of entry may be obtained by writing to Schools’ Competitionin History, Dept. Teacher … Read more