Last April Rathfarnham established its very own historical society with the aim of promoting the history and cultural heritage of the area. Membership is open to all who pay the annual sub (£10; students £5; families £15; non-members £2 per lecture) . The society has already had lectures on a variety of topics—nineteenth century life … Read more
The first Limerick Conference in Irish-German Studies gets underway at the start of September in the University. It is exactly forty years since Nobel Literature Prize-winner Heinrich Böll’s Irisches Tagebuch was first published. Böll, who died in 1985, would have been eighty this year and to mark both occasions the conference puts Böll centre stage. … Read more
The National University of Ireland is undergoing a transformation at the moment, as its constituent Colleges become Universities in their own right. But the NUI will continue to play an important part in educational life, not least in fostering and encouraging research. A good example of this role is the NUI Irish Historical Research Prize. … Read more
by Cathy Molohan Memories of the Great Famine one hundred years previously was one reason why Irish humanitarian aid for Germany immediately after World War II was given in astonishing amounts and with great speed. At the same time, these contributions were the cause of considerable controversy, since the suspicion arose that … Read more
by Nicholas Furlong Being up for the Germans in the war had stirring consolations and triumphalisms until the debacle at Stalingrad. Being up for the British at the same time meant a steady diet of humiliation from Dunkirk to Singapore, via Tobruck. The school yards were divided. Taunts of uncovered German atrocities, experiments, concentration camps, … Read more