Buying Irish: Consumer Nationalism in 18th-century Dublin
Sarah Foster offers a fascinating account of how Irish identity, with its sectarian implications, asserted itself in the manufacture and purchase of luxury goods.
Sarah Foster offers a fascinating account of how Irish identity, with its sectarian implications, asserted itself in the manufacture and purchase of luxury goods.
Richard Cavendish remembers the events of May 15th, 1847.
Denise Silvester-Carr introduces the new Famine Museum at Strokestown, County Roscommon.
Richard Cavendish remembers the events of December 19th, 1796
Ann Hills discusses controversial spending plans for Irish heritage
Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland celebrates its 400th anniversary in 1992. John McGurk discusses the history of the college, set up for the cultivation of virtue and religion.
Andrew Boyd on past efforts to bring Ireland's warring factions to the peace table.
Andrew Boyd tells the story of the ill-fated mission of a papal nuncio whose blundering zeal doomed the hopes of Irish Catholics of profiting from the civil war between Charles I and his Parliament in England.
Rex Cathcart examines how William's brief intervention in Ireland has provided a rallying-point in ideology and iconography for Protestants to the present day.
'Beyond the pale' - the imperialists' vision of the Irish as ignoble savages originated in the attitudes and writings of medieval Englishmen.