Tea drinking may be associated with English culture, but it is still very much part of Irish culture too. Continue reading
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The Irishman who Shot the Duke of Edinburgh
The author, Simon Smith, is a filmmaker who has recorded stories from around the world, and that background is seen in the writing as he fills in little details and concentrates on the lives, likes and troubles of the main characters. Continue reading
Irish History Professors in Irish Universities: Brief Lives series No. 4 J. F. Lydon, 1928-2013
James Francis Michael Lydon (1928‒2013) ‒ always ‘Jim’ to his friends ‒ was the most influential historian of later medieval Ireland of his time…His achievement was to revive the study of a neglected stretch of the Irish past both through his own writings and through the fascination and lasting commitment he inspired in those he taught. Continue reading
Irish History Professors in Irish Universities: The Third one in our Brief Life Series. Professor G. A. Hayes-McCoy.
Composing these words brings to mind a man who, in my experience, was always kind, cautious and considerate, and one who believed that by writing, teaching and example he could make his country a more reasonable, and therefore a more tolerant, society than it had been during his boyhood and early manhood years. Continue reading
St Manchan’s Shrine
Though the shrine was built in the early twelfth century, Saint Manchan died in AD. 644. Contextual evidence allows the authors to point to possible reasons the saint’s life and work might be commemorated years later by such craftsmanship. Continue reading
Professor J. C. Beckett (1912-96)
Professor Beckett in the Quadrangle of Queen’s University Belfast c. 1975
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A Brief History of the Irish in Australia
With the passage of time Irish Catholics eventually did become part of the fabric of Australian society. With the coming of each generation, they moved along and some of them, up the social scale. But their ascent was neither rapid nor easy. Continue reading
British Espionage after The Rising
The Intelligence authorities found it difficult to accept that parents whose eldest adult child had been executed for his role in the Easter Rising, and who moreover had two more sons Volunteers (initially sentenced to death but commuted to 10-year sentences), were not actively involved in the Rising. Continue reading
The McCarthy who kept the Normans out of Munster
Kevin McCarthy has made his surname known in America. Here is one of his ancestors. Continue reading
Professor J. Otway-Ruthven (1909-1989)
A ‘Brief Life’ of Professor J. Otway-Ruthven. Continue reading
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