Following on from my earlier post about the Decade of Commemoration/Centenaries, here’s a more detailed timeline with illustrations and link to other sources of information: The Decade of Commemoration: A Timeline
Irish History Compressed ebook available everywhere!
All right, not everywhere, but on almost all electronic media – Apple ibookstore, Smashwords, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, Kobo, your computer, your smartphone etc. etc… To celebrate, here’s a coupon to get the ebook for a discount price at Smashwords.com:…
Dark Pages – Roger Casement and the Black Diaries
Here‘s a link to an article on Roger Casement and the infamous ‘Black Diaries’. The author doesn’t offer an opinion on the much-debated subject of their authenticity. What’s interesting is the analysis of how Casement has been portrayed in literature:…
Ireland’s Decade of Commemoration: A List of Anniversaries
For my own reference as much as anyone else’s I’ve drawn up a list of dates within the much-discussed ‘Decade of Commemorations’, aka ‘Decade of Centenaries’ (which seems to last more than ten years, but never mind): 1912 Introduction of…
Film: The Enigma of Frank Ryan
Reading a review of this film in Scoláire Staire – History Scholar Magazine (http://scolairestaire.com/index.php) I was brought up short by this picture: “Wait a minute – I recognise that red brick facade!” And yes, indeed, it’s the Whitla Hall at Queen’s…
The Good Friday Agreement
To mark Good Friday, here’s a piece on the build-up to the Belfast Agreement, better known as the Good Friday Agreement after the day it was concluded. Background Events that took place over a long period before 1994 had prepared…