|
New Eventsno events posted in last week
Blog Feeds
Public InquiryInterested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
Human Rights in IrelandA Blog About Human Rights
Lockdown Skeptics
Voltaire NetworkVoltaire, international edition
|
mayo / history and heritage / news report Tuesday May 23, 2006 01:22 by Tadhg
 5 images
The event commemorates an incident in 1849 where starving victims of the Great Hunger were forced to walk through a night of freezing snow in the hope of receiving food aid from the British authorities. Estimates vary of how many people died on the death march and shortly after, but the night is still remembered as an occasion of terrible loss of life in the area. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Thursday May 18, 2006 20:49 by Fiachra O!
 1 comment (last - friday may 19, 2006 14:20) 1 image
Deirdre Ní Chonghaile from the Aran Islands sent this in to the Irish Times just before Easter and it wasn't published it. I thought it was brilliant when she showed me so I'm posting it here with her consent. Enjoy. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Monday May 15, 2006 17:42 by Scot MacCreamhain
Short commemorative article on the Irishmen of the International Brigades read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Saturday May 13, 2006 10:14 by Manus O'Riordan
5 comments (last - friday august 01, 2008 11:14)
Review: Eoin O’Duffy – A Self-Made Hero by Fearghal McGarry, Oxford University Press, 2005, €35/£25 Fearghal McGarry first made his mark as a historian with Irish Politics and the Spanish Civil War (1999), described by me as “the definitive textbook on the subject” in the Fall 2003 issue of Irish Literary Supplement. This was in the context of a review of his second book, Frank Ryan (2002), a biography criticised as both disappointing and sensationalist, with little evidence of the depth of research and analysis required to do justice to its subject. The hope was nonetheless expressed that the author’s future work would demonstrate a return to the “high standards of scholarship, balanced presentation and conscientious evaluation” that he had previously shown. read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Friday May 05, 2006 18:21 by erse
3 comments (last - friday may 05, 2006 23:24) 3 images
25 years ago today after a hunger strike of 66 days, Robert Gerard Sands more commonly known as Bobby Sands died. He had been born on the 9th of March 1954 and was only 27 when he died. He was serving a 14 year sentance for possession of firearms, a pistol which had been found in car in which he and 4 others had been travelling. His trial in 1977 saw other charges relating to a bomb which had been planted nearby the car dropped for lack of evidence. It was not his first experience of imprisonment. He had joined the IRA in 1972 and that same year been interned and held without trial till 1976. Of his 27 years' life, only 17 were spent in freedom. Ireland as they say - was different then. read full story / add a comment 
leitrim / history and heritage / news report Thursday April 27, 2006 16:45 by Jim
10 comments (last - sunday april 30, 2006 03:48) 4 images
The Annual Jim Gralton Commemorative Weekend and School took place in Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim, on the weekend of the 22nd/23rd April. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / news report Wednesday April 26, 2006 19:45 by Dole
St. Michael's primary school is to close this coming June. Apart from the obvious educational concerns, What of it's historical significance? read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage / feature Monday April 24, 2006 22:49 by Andrew Flood
41 comments (last - thursday october 25, 2007 19:43) 9 images
The Easter rising began at mid-day today 90 years ago. Traditionally the anniversary is marked as being on the Easter Monday rather than the actual date, perhaps in part because of the common theme of blood sacrifice. Histories of the rising tend to focus on the idea of blood sacrifice at both a motivation for the rising and the reason for the creation of the Free State. This article argues that although this may have been an important motivation on the day it was not the reason for the rising nor was the reason for the subsequent rise of the IRA simply found in the execution of the republican leadership after the rising. So using the article to mark the actual '90 years on'' date seems appropriate. read full story / add a comment 
meath / history and heritage / news report Monday April 24, 2006 11:24 by watcher
19 comments (last - monday july 16, 2007 09:16) 8 images
Yesterday, April 23, '06, the Sunday Times ran a story about corruption in a multinational engineering company called JE Jacobs that was recently awarded the N6 roads contract in Galway. Two company members were convicted in Chicago last year of illegal bidding and trading of insider information on construction contracts. In the article the Times referred to "Jacobs’ Irish arm", (presumably for legal reasons) which is Jacobs Engineering Ireland. TaraWatch has learned the new head of the NRA Fred Barry was a director with Jacobs when he was hired last year. Everybody knows the construction industry is corrupt, the archaeological profession is corrupt and of course the property development/rezoning industry is rank. Everybody knows there is more to the story as to why the M3 goes where it goes, and will not be moved unless it is forced. It is time Irish citizens put their heads together and figured this one out, before it is too late. There are already many strong indications as to who and what is involved. Lat year we all saw Tommy 'Pots 'n Pans' Reilly, the Fianna Fail by-election candidate in Meath, get pulled from the race because he had bought land with Frank Dunlop in the Tara Skryne Valley. Then there was the Ireland on Sunday investigation into the owner of land at the Blundelstown interchange, Cathal McCarthy, and other 'friends of Fianna Fail', printed below. Let's start putting the pieces together. TaraWatch is beginning a 'Land Registry Fund' to do a complete serach of land ownership in the Tara Skryne Valley. But that is only the beginning. Let's do some communal research and see what we can excavate from the muck of Meath. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / press release Tuesday April 18, 2006 16:43 by Kevin Wingfield
19 comments (last - friday april 21, 2006 19:12)
The Official launch of a short book on "James Connolly, Revolutionary Socialist" by Kieran Allen is attracting much interest read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage / news report Saturday April 15, 2006 19:37 by Revolt Video
8 comments (last - sunday april 16, 2006 20:56) 11 images
1916-2006 Easter Commemoration read full story / add a comment 
national / history and heritage / feature Thursday April 13, 2006 18:35 by Andrew Flood
49 comments (last - monday december 04, 2006 21:16) 6 images
An anarchist analysis of the 1916 insurrection and the war of independence / tan war in the context of the struggle for socialism in Ireland and internationally. Concentrates on the 'unknown' intense class struggle that ran alongside the war of independence and the role republicanism played in the suppression of that struggle in the interests of nationalist unity. Asks what is freedom and shows how anarchism originated amongst earlier European left republicans as an answer to the limitations of republicanism. read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Thursday April 13, 2006 14:12 by Paul Baynes
1 comment (last - saturday april 15, 2006 15:03) 3 images
Last week was the anniversary of the assassination of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4th, 1968. Dr. King's philosophy was one of non-violence, and this article looks at the alternative views of Malcolm X which are not aired quite so frequently. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Thursday April 13, 2006 10:41 by Winston
So Today I see that new terrorism laws have come into place in England. Which states one can no longer Glorify terrorism. read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage / news report Wednesday April 12, 2006 13:07 by Jonah
22 comments (last - thursday april 13, 2006 17:36) 2 images
Members of Sinn Féin and Ógra Shinn Féin carried out a direct action at James Adams & Sons Auctioneers on Stephen's Green. read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage / news report Monday April 10, 2006 23:16 by Chris Murray
5 comments (last - thursday september 07, 2006 16:44) 5 images
Harold's Cross Park celebrated it's centenary in 1994. A plaque commemorates the endowment of the Victorian Park to the people of the Rathmines/Harold's Cross townland. Cllr Mary Frehill performed the dedication ceremony. The park is a protected structure in its whole integrity including the original railings, the promenade ring, the hankerchief tree which commerorates the Women's Laundry strike and the view of the chapel and cemetry at Mount Jerome. Today at 11am, I walked to the park with my daughter to find the park be-ribboned and works ongoing which are dedicated to the removal of the Victorian (or Edwardian ) railings, for 'safety reasons'. There has been no planning notice to this effect on the railings or access points to the park. There has been no public consultation with the residents of the area as to the plans undertaken by Dublin City Council. When I started to take photographs I was threatened by a council worker that he would take a photo of me and that he would call the gardai, thus I confined my mobile camera to the pretty ribbons, until braver people came along. I asked a park keeper if this work would not affect the visual integrity of the park and if planning permission had been sought. He replied that as it was a safety excerise, that he did not believe that permissions were required. The protected structures within the park: two red-brick out-buildings are protected but the park itself was under the jurisdiction of the council. Councillor Frehill, when contacted stated that the works were going to be stopped pending a site visit this evening and a look at the plans for works. There has been in effect a complete stoppage of works until the reason for works and plans are inspected, under enforcement regulations. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / news report Monday April 10, 2006 13:27 by Kevin Wingfield
5 comments (last - tuesday april 11, 2006 13:26)
The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has claimed that ‘the proclamation of the Republic on Easter Monday was a cry of radical idealism that shook the world in 1916 and still challenges us today’. read full story / add a comment 
international / history and heritage / news report Sunday April 09, 2006 17:21 by iosaf mac diarmada
18 comments (last - sunday april 16, 2006 15:14) 12 images
It has been long observed that people for some reason on their non-banking days readily absorb shite about Dangerous Places, Famous People, Sensible Saving Options, Holidays, Interesting facts, Sport results, Media, gardening and health as well looking ahead at “democratic evolution” and looking back at "how history was made". This week's edition is very short. In fact I almost didn't write one, and like the "house arrest" edition that never transpired, the Judas edition almost escaped the open publishing network. But you're not getting off that easily. _______________________________________________________________________________ read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Saturday April 08, 2006 13:06 by C Murray
2 comments (last - sunday april 09, 2006 17:46)
The creation of a Critical infrastructure body charged with fast-track planning applications was held up by Michael Mc Dowell TD and Minister for Justice for many months. The idea vaunted by Martin Cullen TD at Environment had the breaks put on due to the nimby Mc Dowell who definitely did not want Poolbeg in his back yard, interfering with his constituencey majority. read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Friday March 31, 2006 11:52 by Chris murray
1 comment (last - friday march 31, 2006 12:23)
The NRA conference entitled : Building a Better Road Environment (30/03/06) was addressed by Margaret Gowen of Gowen and co. Archaeological Consultants and project managers. The methodology of preparing an EIS used by the project management team in the M3 Route selection procedure was adapted as a template for procedural applications and re-hashed for the NRA conference. One could derive from this that it is considered a sucessful model for future road projects. read full story / add a comment |
|
|
