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Thirty years after its release, Neil Jordan’s Michael Collins remains one of the most important and influential films ever made in Ireland. Combining epic storytelling, powerful performances and a remarkable recreation of a pivotal period in Irish history, it brought the life of Collins to the screen in a way no previous production had achieved, […]
Anthony O’Hagan remembers the dedicated musicians who went down with the Titanic Among the many stories that emerged from the sinking of the Titanic, none has travelled further or touched more hearts than that of the musicians who played as the ship went down. Their courage has become one of the defining legends of […]
EUGENE DALY continues his series on various aspects of Irish folklore and customs BEFORE THE advent of the creamery in the last century, butter was ‘made’ at home. It was generally a weekly chore. Before the era of the separator, which separated the milk from the cream, the fresh milk was kept in vessels […]
By Mary A. Moloney, marking 250 years of the USA Patty Hearst? Bonnie Parker? No, this was Mary Harris, a native of Shandon, Co. Cork, better known as Mother Jones, a prominent labour organiser, activist, and defiant supporter of workers’ and union rights. In 1903, Mary appeared in a West Virginia courtroom, charged with defying […]
Television was seen in Ireland for the very first time in May 1951 at a public demonstration booth during the Royal Dublin Society Spring Show in Ballsbridge. This milestone exhibition introduced live television technology to the Irish public years before a domestic broadcast service was established, writes Éamon Ó Buadhacháin We know that RTE […]
As America marks the 250th anniversary of its founding, Eamonn Duggan recounts the remarkable story of Wexford-born Commodore John Barry, the pioneering naval commander who rose from humble beginnings in Tacumshane to become celebrated as the ‘Father of the American Navy’ and one of the heroes of the American Revolution. This year is the 250th […]
AIDAN MURPHY looks at the role numbers play in our everyday lives Numbers play an important part in our lives – our age, date of birth, calendar dates, telephone numbers, car registrations, the amount of money in our bank accounts or, at times, what we owe the bank! Without numbers our daily lives would grind […]
ROLE OF THE IRISH IN WW2 by Con McGrath Limerick man Timothy Falahee, who spent three and a half years as a prisoner of the Japanese, including ten long months in the construction of the Bangkok-Burma railway From Templeathea near the village of Athea in west County Limerick, Timothy Falahee set out in 1935 in […]
By Patricia Doyle The sun shone from a clear blue sky on a Saturday, in June in the late 60s, as I waited patiently outside the telephone box at Saint Luke’s Cross, just a stone’s throw away from the historic toll booth that had been there since the 1880s. This tiny octagonal building had once […]
HARRY WARREN profiles the first woman to design, build and fly her own plane For many years the name Lilian Bland rested quietly at the edge of Irish history, appearing only occasionally in books and articles about the earliest days of flight. Yet hers is a story that deserves to be told in full. It […]
