Some of the finest Irish paintings from the turn of the century to the present day will be featured in a ground-breaking exhibition being premiered at Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery, 16 October 1998-10 January 1999. More than seventy works will be showcased in When Time Began to Rant and Rage: Twentieth-Century Figurative Painting from … Read more
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 … Read more
To commemorate the eightieth anniversary of the ending of the Great War, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers Association will be organising a series of public lectures (see ‘Events’ p. 4) and an exhibition of personal stories and memorabilia belonging to Irish men and women who took part in this terrible tragedy. The purpose of the exhibition, … Read more
One of the best kept secrets of Irish history publishing is Retrospect, journal of the Irish History Students Association, which every year publishes the papers delivered at the annual IHSA conference. The current issue includes: ‘The forces behind the Gaelic Revival in the late medieval period’ by Brendan Daly (UCG); ‘The effects of the Second … Read more
by Ben Novick 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 … Read more