Last month we had an account of Fr Bob Arthure’s cocooning with the good nuns at Glencairn Abbey where he has found a new interest, writing blogs. Here are some of his writings on St Carthage. ST CARTHAGE (MOCHUDA) OF LISMORE Traditional feast day: 14 May; Liturgical feast day (since Vatican II): 15 May … Continue reading
Papers will range from Irish orphan stories, Mary Lee, women in the 1916 Rising and conscription, Irish nuns and identity, chain migration, women in World War 1, through to the 20th century ‘Troubles’ and abortion reform and neonatal deaths. Continue reading
It is easy today to forget the extreme ways that nineteenth-century British society divided along sectarian lines. Continue reading
Waugh’s brief is not to debate the merits of the current Australian education system but to highlight the significant influence of the Irish National Schools system in colonial times in paving the way for the provision of public education in Australia. Continue reading
Catherine Fitzpatrick, a convict’s wife, conductor of the first choir of an infant colony. Continue reading
Morgan’s book, The Mannix Era, is richly personal. It is written with considerable charm and an acerbic wit. But to read it in 2019 is to be overwhelmed by its masculinist perspective. Continue reading
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
In the eyes of many he ‘fell from grace’, but he maintained a silent dignity to his grave. Continue reading
Nicholas was was a Gaelic scholar and one of the founders of the Celtic Club. Continue reading
The Letter Under The Pillow offers a detailed outline of how a diverse group of women helped develop a religious order in countries far from their Irish home, Continue reading
