To commemorate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Irish Famine last year, Norma Smurfit commissioned Rowan Gillespie to create a work of art in honour of all those who died and suffered during the Famine. The bronze group sculpture (entitled ‘Famine’) deals with the subject of emigration and vividly portrays the extreme suffering … Read more
To commemorate the eightieth anniversary of the ending of the GreatWar, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers Association will be organising a seriesof public lectures (see ‘Events’ p.4) and an exhibition of personalstories and memorabilia belonging to Irish men and women who took partin this terrible tragedy. The purpose of the exhibition, Let IrelandRemember, will be to … Read more
One of the best kept secrets of Irish history publishing is Retrospect,journal of the Irish History Students Association, which every yearpublishes the papers delivered at the annual IHSA conference. Thecurrent issue includes: ‘The forces behind the Gaelic Revival in thelate medieval period’ by Brendan Daly (UCG); ‘The effects of the SecondWorld War on Northern Ireland’ … Read more
Sir Roger Casement, humanitarian and Irish nationalist, has been the subject of two important new works by Angus Mitchell and Roger Sawyer. At first they worked together on Casement’s accounts of his journeys in the Putamayo region in South America between 1910 and 1914, but the two scholars soon found that they disagreed on the … Read more
The activities of Irish merchants, students and above all mercenaries living and working in Catholic continental countries, especially France, Spain and Austria, have been well documented. However the histories of Irishmen operating in Scandinavia and northern Europe have been virtually ignored. Yet during the course of the early modern period hundreds of Irishmen sought their … Read more