By Brian Hopkins and Peter McClintock Darver, Co. Louth, 22 December 1799: on this date and in that village Nicholas Joseph Callan was born into a prosperous farming family with a spread of business interests, including brewing. His formal education began at the Presbyterian Dundalk Academy, followed by a stint at Navan Seminary in preparation … Read more
An analysis of the 1833 tithe records of Derrygrath, Co. Tipperary. By John Keating The tithe records for the civil parish of Derrygrath, South Tipperary, account for 3,713 of the 3,777-acre map area (cottages on under one acre are not recorded). The records were compiled in 1833 and include details on the size and cropping … Read more
The response to the Belfast blitzes of 1941. By Pat Poland By April 1941 the United Kingdom had been at war with Nazi Germany for over a year and a half. From the start, the authorities in Northern Ireland believed that they were geographically too far removed from the main action for it to have … Read more
Does photo colourisation bring us closer to the past? By Emily Mark-Fitzgerald In 1988 Ted Turner announced that he intended to colourise Citizen Kane. A critical and popular outcry soon forced a retreat, though Turner continued to colourise black-and-white films from both RKO and MGM’s back catalogues for decades, albeit with lukewarm public reception. Three … Read more
www.dib.ie By Terry Clavin In March 2021, the Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) moved to an ‘open-access’ model, making its entire corpus of nearly 11,000 biographical entries freely available to all users through a new website at www.dib.ie. The DIB marked its move to open access by publishing a number of high-profile new entries online, … Read more