For the marginal outsider like myself, this book explained the geopolitical realignments that occurred so quickly and unexpectedly in Ireland between 1958 and 2018. Continue reading
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Irish History Professors in Irish Universities. Brief Lives series. No.7. Professor T.W.Moody
The names Moody and Edwards are jointly synonymous with the emergence of history as an organised academic discipline in Ireland in the late 1930s. Continue reading
This Happened in Ireland. Read and Weep
The Magdalen Laundries from someone who was in one from the age of 11. Continue reading
Irish History Professors in Irish Universities: Brief Lives Series. No. 6. Professor J.A. Murphy
…his greatest contribution as an historian was as a communicator of modern historical research to the wider public…He was much loved across the UCC community for his wit, his outspokeness …and as the great proponent of the historic mission and proper modus operandi of the University as a community of scholars 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
Grace Gifford: Just Ephemera? A new discovery in Sydney
A rare example of the ways Grace Gifford Plunkett sought to avoid poverty in the Civil way and the early years of the Free State. Continue reading
Hidden Cargoes by Chris Arthur
Hidden Cargoes is a substantive work of research and creative analysis that also reads like a gentle musing on life by a favourite relative. Continue reading
What’s On in April – May 2023
Lots to choose from…. This month’s arts roundup features SBS’s celebration on Irish cinema, recent Irish casting news, Folk Festivals and other dates for your diary. We also feature a save the date for an African and Irish music concert on Saturday 6th May. SBS On Demand have put together a catalogue of Irish Films … 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
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