Christmas on College Green
There are some good (if brief) shots of the Irish House of Lords chamber in this Christmas ad for the Bank of Ireland, 0:35-0:45. The former Irish Houses of Parliament on College Green in Dublin were...
View ArticleIrish Arts in the 50s
Sitting in Dublin Airport waiting for a flight last week I picked up a copy of the Irish Arts Review which featured a number of interesting pieces (including something by our own Dr John Gilmartin)....
View ArticleColonel Moore
Senator Colonel Maurice George Moore, Companion of the Order of the Bath, is an understudied figure from that remarkable period of rapid transformation in Ireland’s political history. While certainly...
View ArticleThe McGillycuddy of the Reeks
How lovely to see a member of the Gaelic nobility – in this case, the McGillycuddy of the Reeks – having a letter printed in the newspaper (Daily Telegraph, Letters, Wednesday 20 December 2017). His...
View ArticleAlbert Power & Arthur Griffith
These days the Irish sculptor Albert Power is very rarely spoken of, and I can’t claim to know much about this bronze bust he did of the founder of the original Sinn Féin, Arthur Griffith. It might be...
View ArticleCarson at Stormont
Image: Daniel Bizka Few statues in Ireland are as dramatic as that of Edward Carson at Stormont. The unionist leader is depicted in amidst an oratorical flourish, doubtless in one of his speeches to...
View ArticleDublin in the Common Market
A full decade before Ireland joined the E.E.C., cartoonist J.M. McCarthy filed this vision of the Irish capital’s cosmopolitan future in a 1962 issue of Dublin Opinion. The scene is Henry Street —...
View ArticleLetter to the Editor: The Times
There has been a distinct increase in the number of missives sent out from Huis Cusack to editorial offices across Europe and beyond as part of my slow but inevitable transformation into “Disgruntled...
View ArticleFour Reasons Rodden and Rossi are Wrong on Northern Ireland
Economics alone will not join what history has rent asunder Academics John Rodden and John Rossi have an interesting but poorly argued piece in the normally-quite-good American Conservative “asking”...
View ArticleArticles of Note: 15.I.2021
Articles of Note Friday 15 January 2021 • So far as any popular idea of the Spanish Civil War exists in the English-speaking world it is loaded with falsehoods and misconceptions. Stanley Payne, one...
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