Between the initial insertion of the Eighth into the Constitution in 1983 and the current proposed removal, there have been four additional referenda pertaining to abortion – two which passed, and two which failed. Continue reading
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New Online Archive of the Troubles in NI
For researchers, a new archive of the Troubles in Northern Ireland…. Continue reading
100 years of Irish Women’s Suffrage
A book of essays reissued to mark the centenary of women’s suffrage in Ireland in 2018 full of interest for the general reader. Continue reading
Ireland’s first diplomatic representative to the Commonwealth of Australia
Mannix made the expected speech getting straight up the noses of loyal Australia by calling Kiernan the representative of the whole of Ireland. Continue reading
Australia and Ireland in the bitter year of 1917
1917 was a bitter year – probably the most bitter in white Australia’s history – but also one of which Irish Australians can be proud. Continue reading
The Irish Civil War
It is difficult to write about it – or, indeed, read about it – without anger, Continue reading
Chief Secretary of Ireland’s Office Archives.
The records of the Chief Secretary of Ireland’s Office constitute one of the most valuable collections of original source material for research into Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Continue reading
President Higgins at Melbourne University
we have with us a politician, a poet, a writer, an academic, a statesman, a rights advocate, a champion of the creative industries. Continue reading
Linen Hall Library, Belfast
Over the years the Library has become the repository for a vast amount of material relating to the subject and the subsequent Peace Process Continue reading
Birds At Bundanon
Birds amplify
the silence; their calls,
borne on the wind’s leafy roar,
lodge in the mind, the marrow. Continue reading
