- CURRAGH MILITARY FUNERAL
Published: July 27, 2011
A FAMILY QUEST
When Caroline Walker met with genealogist Karel Kiely of Kildare Library Arts Services and rootsireland (Irish Family History Foundati...
- You Are Legend: The 75th anniversary of the formation of the International Brigades who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War.
Published: July 28, 2011
A bit late in, but the exhibition goes on for some days.
You Are Legend
The 75th anniversary of the formation of the International Brigades who fought...
- Pue’s recommendations for August
Published: August 1, 2011
Juliana Adelman: I am slowly working my way through my bedside pile of books and I have finally gotten to E.H. Grombrich’s A little history of the...
- BOOK LAUNCH: The Provisional IRA - From Insurrection to Parliament - Connolly Books, 10 August @ 5.30pm
Published: August 2, 2011
BOOK LAUNCH
The Provisional IRA - From Insurrection to Parliament:
by Tommy Mc Kearney
Published by: Pluto Press London
Wednesday 10th August
5-30 - 6...
- COMMODORE THOMAS MACDONOUGH
Published: July 26, 2011
Commodore Thomas Macdonough (1782-1825)
By W.S. Murphy
Commodore Macdonough’s first American forebear was Dr. James McDonough, who emigrated from Co...
- The capstan
Published: July 20, 2011
Contributed by Brian J. Goggin A capstan is used for winding in a rope with a large load on the end. It has a vertical axle, allowing many people to t...
- The Irish Landed Estates Database
Published: July 12, 2011
Contributed by Joanne McEntee One could be forgiven for supposing that the contemporary terms ‘ghost estates’ or ‘abandoned estates’ merely ex...
- Dunmore Cave: following in the footsteps of 1100 year old murderers.
Published: July 5, 2011
Dunmore cave, Co Kilkenny is pretty unique. Aside from its impressive geological features, it is one of the few places in Ireland where archaeology an...
- SINS OF THE FATHER, B-SIDES AND OUT-TAKES: The Cattle Crisis and the Small Farmer, by Ray Crotty (1974)
Published: July 2, 2011
Recent developments highlight the remarkable contrast which has existed for almost a century-and-a-half between the fortunes of the Irish banking sys...
- ESCAPE FROM NEWBRIDGE BARRACKS
Published: June 30, 2011
The Sunday Press, April 15 1951
THEY ESCAPED FROM NEWBRIDGE BARRACKS AND THEN FIVE MEN TREKKED HOMEMountains were our safeguard
Seamus O’Connor and...
- SINS OF THE FATHER: INTERVIEW WITH DCTV
Published: June 29, 2011
Thanks to Barra and Ciarán for asking me in and giving me the opportunity to talk about the book.
- The Pursuit of Power (part II): The Rise of Brian Boru and the Dál Cais
Published: June 28, 2011
Episode 8 sees medieval Ireland stand of the edge of a precipice. A rootless struggle for control of the O Neill kingdom breaks out in the North, wh...
- READING THE MAPS: A GUIDE TO THE IRISH HISTORIC TOWNS ATLAS
Published: June 28, 2011
READING THE MAPS: A GUIDE TO THE IRISH HISTORIC TOWNS ATLAS
By Jacinta Prunty and H.B. Clarke
What percentage loss of population did Kildare town expe...
- EMERGING LABOUR MOVEMENTS IN IRELAND 1900-1923: GROSVENOR HOUSE – BELFAST – SAT. 16th. APRIL 2011
Published: March 26, 2011
FEDERATION OF LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETIES
JOINT SEMINAR WITH FEDERATION FOR ULSTER LOCAL STUDIES
GROSVENOR HOUSE – BELFAST – SAT. 16th. APRIL 2011
“...
- Magazine of Magazines
Published: March 23, 2011
By Lisa Marie Griffith Irish print culture and eighteenth century studies are soon to benefit from a fantastic Eighteenth Century Research Group (Univ...
- Bar Council Archive: appeal for material
Published: March 15, 2011
Contributed by Jeanne McDonagh The Bar Council Archive of photographs, documents and related legal material, under the patronage of His Hon, Mr Justic...
- NEWBRIDGE WAR MEMORIAL
Published: March 9, 2011
Below are two articles fom the Kildare Observer relating to the erection of a War Memorial in Newbridge Cemetery in 1931. Thanks to Deirdre Twomey, w...
- DOWNED AT TACUMSHANE
Published: March 5, 2011
Downed at Tacumshane
James Durney
On 3 March 1941 a German air force Heinkel 111H-5 made a forced landing at Tacumshane, Ladies Island, Co. Wexford. L...
- Who’s the missing martyr?
Published: March 2, 2011
I have been meaning to put this up since I wrote an article about St Peters church Phibsboro. Situated across the road from St Peter’s Catholic Chur...
- LEADER EDITOR TERMED 'A GENTLE REVOLUTIONARY'
Published: March 1, 2011
Leader editor termed ‘a gentle revolutionary’
Revolutionaries are generally perceived as being men and women of daring action, assertive leadershi...
- TROUBLES ON THE HOME FRONT OVERSHADOW WAR'S END
Published: March 1, 2011
Troubles on the home front overshadow war’s end
The date line on this week’s issue meant that there was only one historical theme that could be co...
- THE DAY THE BIG FELLOW CAME TO TOWN
Published: March 1, 2011
The day the Big Fellow came to town
The name Michael Collins still provokes a frisson in a modern Ireland. It is amazing how three generations removed...
- LEIXLIP HISTORY CLUB SCHEDULE
Published: March 1, 2011
Leixlip History Club 2011 schedule
Library is at: 01-6060050Leixlip Library is adjoining Leixlip-Confey railway station, on Captains Hill, Leixlip....
- Photo Essay: A brief history of Medieval Kilkenny in Pictures
Published: January 17, 2011
Kilkenny castle
Kilkenny more than any other Irish city has a distinctively medieval feel about it. Its small streets wind around several medieval b...
- How you can help get the podcast out more frequently in 2011.
Published: January 10, 2011
So we’ve got to episode 5 (no.6 is in production), I hope you’ve enjoyed it so far. While the show is free to download unfortunately it is not f...
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