The assassination of Walter Edward Guinness -Lord Moyne – 1944
By Ray Esten The foundation stone of a building at Trinity College Dublin was laid by the Hon. Grania Guinness of the …
Major-General Patrick Ronanye Cleburne: Cork’s Confederate General
By Ray Esten Patrick Royanye Cleburne was one the most revered military leaders of the Confederate Army in the American Civil War. …
Using the gloves to turn a shilling or a crown: gloved sparring in the late eighteenth to mid- nineteenth century
A history of gloved exhibition boxing in Ireland. By Ray Esten In devotion to Simon Byrne and his kin -the battling kind …
The Whitefeet: Social Conflict in Kilkenny and Laois Before the Famine
By Terry Dunne There is a great sense of prescience to what English Radical M.P. George Poulet Scrope wrote eleven years before …
The Cattle Drives of 1920: Agrarian Mobilisation in the Irish Revolution
By Terry Dunne In 1925 Clare was bedecked with posters bearing what we might think of as a fiery revolutionary message. They …
Book Review: Art, Ireland & The Irish Diaspora: Chicago, Dublin, New York 1893-1939, Culture, Connections and Controversies
By Eimear O’Connor Published by: Irish Academic Press, Newbridge, Co. Kildare Reviewer: Patricia Curtin Kelly In her latest book, art historian Eimear …
Scrapping: The Early Years – Dublin Boxing in the late 18th and early 19th centuries
By Ray Esten In memory of Darren Sutherland, a life too short Rebirth We often assume that modern boxing has its origins …