A stone monument was publicly dedicated to John Neilson in Maplewood Cemetery, Charlottesville, Virginia on 17 April 1999. Born in Ballycarry, County Antrim in the 1770s, he was apprenticed to the architect Hunter in Belfast. In 1798, Neilson was banished for seven years for his part in the rebellion; a brother Samuel was banished for … Read more
Sir Roger Casement was one of a number of patriots, who came from a different tradition. He was of Antrim Presbyterian stock, and gave exemplary service not just to the British Colonial Office but to mankind, in exposing the slavery and inhumanity suffered at the hands of imperialism by native peoples of the Belgium Congo … Read more
A new ‘Gateway for Irish Studies in the Humanities’ has been set up athttp://www.ucd.ie/irh. Its purpose is to provide a single access pointfor new and innovative sites on the Internet which engage with themedium of hypertext and the spatial freedom of the Internet to furtherour understanding of the various fields of Irish studies in thehumanities. … Read more
The sonorous sound of the unique set of bells from St George’s Church, Hardwicke Place, silent since the church closed in 1990, will be heard again ringing in the next millennium at a new location in Dublin, in Taney parish church, Dundrum. The set of bells are an important and integral part of Dublin’s rich … Read more
Queen’s University, Belfast, was an apt venue for the Irish Legal History Society’s 1998 AGM and conference. The Society is a cross-border organisation founded ten years ago to encourage the study of the history of Irish law. A specific object is to publish original documents and works about Irish law and also to reprint or … Read more