Hiram Morgan is joint editor of History Ireland; Mary Clancy is a postgraduate history student at Trinity College, Dublin; Frank Foley is a postgraduate history student at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge; Eugene Coyle is a local historian and writer; Brian Hanley is a postgraduate history student at Trinity College, Dublin
A prize of £2,000 will be offered in 1999, and in alternate yearsthereafter, for the best work of Irish historical research, the matterof which must have been published for the first time by any student orgraduate of the National University of Ireland during the three yearsimmediately preceding 1 April of the year in which the … Read more
Bodin, Hobbes, Hegel, Weber, Troeltsch and Von Gierke were the political philosophers whom the late Professor James Hogan used lecture us on as his students in University College Cork in the late 1950s. These days it would be unusual for a professor of history to put political theory at the centre of his teaching. But … Read more
It all began in the classroom in Wilson’s Hospital school. Why, my Leaving Certificate history pupils wanted to know, did so many Irishmen enlist for the Great War. I endeavoured to explain. The class remained unconvinced. The formal reasons lacked a vital ingredient, human interest. We walked across to the chapel and studied the Roll … Read more
Under the terms of his will, the late Professor Francis J. Crowley,California, USA, who was of Irish descent, made a bequest to the Irishstate in which he provided that funds from his estate should be used inthe acquisition and conservation of the records of the history of theIrish people. With the financial resources made available … Read more