Just down the street from Google’s European HQ on Barrow Street, the rough stone walls of The Factory building houses the National Performing Arts School. Set up 20 years ago by Eamon Farrell and Jill Doyle to teach the skills […]
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Bath Avenue-based theatre company Landmark Productions have embarked on a wide-ranging tour of their latest show. Having opened in the Irish Arts Centre, New York, on May 7th, These Halcyon Days by Deirdre Kinahan returns to Ireland this month for […]
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You may not realise it but you probably know Maurice Fitzgerald’s work by sight. If you’ve had friends or relations visit from abroad, and they’ve played the tourist around town, they may well have returned to their homes with a […]
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Meta Gale, who died recently in her nineties, was for decades an indespensible member of Dublin Camera Club. Meta was Honorary Secretary of the club from 1960 until 1996 and served as President in 1969, the first of numerous women […]
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A debate has been raging between environmentalists and the Department of Agriculture over the possible connection between a common pesticide and the noted fall in bee population in recent years. Ireland recently abstained from voting for or against participation in […]
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Nearly three months into the Lock-Out, on November 19th, James Larkin and James Connolly founded the Irish Citizen Army. The militia was established as a response to the harsh physical force employed by the Dublin Metropolitan Police and the Royal […]
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The choice of James Plunkett’s Strumpet City as this year’s One City, One Book has been given the thumbs-up by many of the capital’s literary groups. Although written in 1969, the story still retains the feelings of destitution, anger and […]
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Information on the events of the Lock-Out will not be hard to come by as August 26th draws closer. But in trying to understand watershed events of the past sometimes the human dimension is lost in the politics. Dublin-based publishers […]
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The early 20th century was a time of social change across Europe, particularly for women. In the U.K, Emmeline Pankhurst’s Women’s Social and Political Union, more commonly known as the ‘Suffragettes’, were making giant strides in the struggle for sexual […]
Read more →William Martin Murphy (1844 – 1919) Newspaper baron, MP, builder and owner of the Dublin Tramway Company, William Martin Murphy led Dublin employers against Jim Larkin’s trade union movement. In August 1913, he sacked hundreds of workers whom he suspected […]
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