I just spotted a new article on the BBC’s website about Roger Casement, so I thought I’d link to it. The main ‘thesis’ is as follows: Author Angus Mitchell, who has written several books on Casement, believes he was not…
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Irish and Northern Irish newspaper archives online
Historian Brett Holman has a list of British newspaper archives available online at his blog airminded.org. Included within it are a good number of titles from Ireland and Northern Ireland: The Anglo-Celt (Cavan) Belfast Gazette (free) Butte Independent 1910 to…
Timeline of Ireland’s History
A comprehensive timeline can be found here: http://wp.me/P2M4um-5H
The Sash by the Seaside: A Brief History of the Republic of Ireland’s Only Orange Parade | The Dustbin of History
Fascinating: The Sash by the Seaside: A Brief History of the Republic of Ireland’s Only Orange Parade | The Dustbin of History.
Common Irish surnames and their derivations
There’s a long and interesting article about common Irish surnames and their derivations on the Irish Medieval History page on facebook. It’s got some snippets of information I wasn’t aware of either. I’d always assumed anyone Irish with a French-sounding…
We’re on Twitter!
Irish History Compressed now has a Twitter feed under the rather squashed moniker of http://twitter.com/HistoryCompr (You’d think with over 500 million users the twelve-character limit on Twitter names would need to be lifted…) That means that from now on you…
The Republic: The Fight for Irish Independence 1918-1923, by Charles Townshend
The Times Higher Education Supplement has a review by Marianne Elliott: The Republic: The Fight for Irish Independence 1918-1923, by Charles Townshend | Books | Times Higher Education.
Ireland and the World Wars on Pinterest
It’s all been a bit quiet around here recently as attention has been focused on back-end things such as redesigning and optimising the website. I’ve also been procrastinating a bit by playing around with Pinterest, and I decided to move…
The Rathmines Church Fire, 1920 – Come here to me!
In one of those funny coincidences, I had only reposted this picture on Pinterest yesterday, to then find an entry on the same subject on the Come here to me Dublin blog, quoting from and apparently questioning the Sunday Times…
Treaty Port handover ‘just like yesterday’
Several of the Irish newspapers have been reporting another anniversary (though not a centenary, for once!): 75 years since the handing over to Irish control of what were referred to as “the Treaty Ports”. These were three deep-water navy bases…