By Mark B. Roe The records of the British and old Irish parliaments contain detailed evidence of one of Ireland’s earliest experiments in institutional child care: the Foundling Hospital. Annual admission figures are available for 82 out of the 100 years during which the hospital accepted admissions. From these we can calculate that approximately 127,000 … Read more
NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND (UNTIL JANUARY 2025) By Donal Fallon Despite being something of a lapsed Roman Catholic, I spend a considerable amount of time visiting churches. At St Joseph’s in Terenure, the stained-glass windows by the Harry Clarke Studios have inspired a history by Patricia Curtin-Kelly. A visit to Dún Laoghaire offers a chance … Read more
By Ray O’Connor Savings banks were financial institutions that promoted moral improvement among the lower social orders by advocating a strong work ethic, sobriety and thrift. They encouraged the poor to make financial provision for infirmity, illness and old age by offering a financial service that provided a safe place to deposit any savings. Savings … Read more
PATRICK W. HAYES Boydell and Brewer £90 ISBN 9781783277063 REVIEWED BY Simon Egan Simon Egan is a lecturer in Medieval Irish History at Queen’s University, Belfast. Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in the environmental history of pre-modern Ireland. This very welcome study by Patrick Hayes adds to this growing body of research. The … Read more
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr On 4 November 1922, Ernie O’Malley was captured after a shoot-out with National Army soldiers at the family home of Nell O’Rahilly Humphries, 36 Ailesbury Road, which had been his headquarters for six weeks. Severely affected by his wounds—he was hit over nine times—O’Malley was transferred from Portobello military hospital … Read more