In his opening remarks to this conference held in January 1998 at NUI, Cork, organiser Dermot Keogh stressed the relative neglect of art as a historical source. At a time when academy art in the new state was traditional and antagonistic to the modern, many painters—in particular many women painters like Evie Hone and Mainie … Read more
In the course of a review of Douglas Hyde’s The Story of Early Gaelic Literature (1895), Frederick York Powell drew attention to the dearth of published texts in the Irish language: Is it too much to hope for the establishment of an Irish Text Society? It should publish in handy, clear-printed form the unpublished texts … Read more
Among the large number of departmental records made available to researchers in early January this year was one bulky file from 1968 containing correspondence relating to the repatriation of the remains of the Connaught Rangers mutineers who had died in India in 1920. The release of these documents renders timely an examination of their mutiny … Read more