Currently in pre-production, Poorhouse is a half-hour drama set during the period of the Great Famine. The film is co-written and directed by Frank Stapelton and adapted from a story by Michael Harding. The film’s plot concerns the relationship between an elderly gravedigger at the workhouse and a young pregnant woman who arrives there from … Read more
Efforts are under way in County Meath to have a new statue of St Patrick installed on the Hill of Tara. The original statue was removed last year by the Office of Public Works for refurbishment but was found to have deteriorated beyond repair. Rathfeigh Historical Society has acted as secretary of a Tara Committee … Read more
The Third Irish Genealogical Congress will take place on 22-28 September 1997 in St Patrick’s College, Maynooth. A number of presentations on the Famine are planned as part of the 150th anniversary. Another theme will be the seventy-five years work to reconstitute the records destroyed in the Four Courts fire in 1922, aswell as the … Read more
Tom Garvin (UCD) was ‘very uneasy about it’ while Brendan McGahon TD spoke of ‘lurid imaginings’. These comments were made in a Sunday Times article rubbishing the as yet unreleased Neil Jordan film about Michael Collins. The article was entitled ‘Hollywood’s rewrite of Irish history clouds peace process’. Although the peace process has in fact … Read more
Mayo North Family History Research Centre has won the annual Meidheal Award . Established in 1981 as the Crossmolina Historical Society, it soon developed and set up a multi-faceted centre which included a family history research unit and a Rural Artefacts Museum. The centre was officially opened in April 1992 by President Mary Robinson and … Read more