History
# history - Wednesday 26 December, 2012
It’s the bumper secondary school Christmas test!
What does AC/DC stand for? Who discovered the double helix? Do you know?
# history - Friday 21 December, 2012
National Library releases documents from Roger Casement’s incarceration
Materials include portraits, documents relating to the degradation of his knighthood and touching letters to his family in the final days before his execution.
# history - Thursday 20 December, 2012
Google launches Dead Sea Scrolls online library
Only five conservators worldwide are authorized to handle the Dead Sea Scrolls, but now, everyone can view them.
# history - Friday 14 December, 2012
Swimming: Lochte smashes 200m medley world record
The 11-time Olympic medallist secured a time of 49.63 seconds en route to a fourth consecutive gold medal
# history - Sunday 9 December, 2012
Column: How sex shops came to Ireland
The Republic’s first sex shop was opened in 1991 amid a storm of controversy. Two decades later, Donal Fallon looks at the chequered history of the adult store.
Free State came into being 90 years ago this week
Flashback to the turbulent beginning of Saorstát Éireann, which was hurtling towards civil war even as it gained statehood.
# history - Friday 7 December, 2012
Lives of Irish soldiers unveiled in newly published records
The records have been published as part of a newly-digitised collection of those pensioned from the British army by the Royal Hospital Kilmainham.
Column: They promised an end to stroke politics – has it worked out that way?
Gary Murphy looks at Ireland’s history of ‘stroke politics’ and asks: should we simply accept that this is the way things will always work?
# history - Sunday 25 November, 2012
Photos: Inside the ‘largest ship in the world’ docked in Arklow in 1870
The SS Great Eastern was the largest ship ever built when it launched in 1858 – and here’s what the saloons inside it looked like when it docked in Arklow in 1870.
# history - Tuesday 20 November, 2012
Woman charged after Swedish skeleton find
A woman has been accused of necrophilia after investigators found 100 skeleton parts in her apartment.
University looks for ‘amateur sleuths’ to help unlock pre-Famine stories
NUI Maynooth wants to learn more about an 1841 manuscript, the Morpeth Roll.
# history - Sunday 11 November, 2012
What did the Guinness family ever do for us?
Forget Arthur’s Day – National Philanthropy Day will hear about the real legacy left behind by some members of the brewing family: a cathedral, a library… and bacteria get a look in too.
Column: ‘Surely it’s time Ireland embraced the memorial poppy’
It’s not about choosing sides – Ireland should lose its timidity and commemorate fallen Irish soldiers, writes David McCann.
# history - Saturday 10 November, 2012
The symbol of our time: A decommissioned AK47?
The sign from the former Anglo Irish Bank HQ is vying with a decommissioned AK47 as the object of our times in National Museum poll.
# history - Tuesday 6 November, 2012
Extract: ‘Mr de Valera’s conviction that Hitler would win the war was stupid’
David Gray, the US Amabassador to Ireland in 1940, reveals just what he thought of Dev, the 1916 leaders and why he thought Ireland was in collusion with the Nazis.
# history - Sunday 4 November, 2012
How holy ‘apparitions’ pressed pause on War of Independence
Visitations of the Virgin Mary to a teenage boy and ‘bleeding’ statues in Templemore, Co Tipperary seized the country – even causing Michael Collins to get involved in the mysterious case.
# history - Sunday 28 October, 2012
Read Me: The Irish have not always been the victims of history
Joe O’Shea’s book throws light on the lesser-known bad boys of Irish antiquity, including one Kilkenny man who captured 12,000 slaves and launched 40 cross-Atlantic slave voyages in the early 18th century.
# history - Friday 19 October, 2012
Frankie Dettori: Pressure all on Frankel’s jockey, Queally
Timeform, racing’s reference formguide bible, rates Frankel the best in history, displacing French star Sea Bird after 47 years at the top.
# history - Sunday 14 October, 2012
Hidden Ireland: Abandoned and ruined ‘big houses’
Author and photographer Tarquin Blake has explored the hidden history behind Ireland’s ‘big houses’ in his latest book.
# history - Thursday 11 October, 2012
Charlie Haughey drama trilogy gets major chunk of €4.5m BAI funding
Trilogy charting Ireland through Charlie Haughey for RTÉ gets €1m funding and TG4 crime drama Corp + Anam lands €775k of the pot.
# history - Friday 5 October, 2012
Irish War of Independence exhibition to mark centenary of The Fianna Convention
The exhibition includes uniforms, weaponry, photographs, newspaper clippings and other memorabilia from the time.
# history - Thursday 4 October, 2012
Deenihan to undertake assessment of Moore Street 1916 site
Proposed plans for a shopping mall that would include a commemorative centre cannot go ahead without ministerial consent.
# history - Tuesday 2 October, 2012
“Still the battle rages”: Dublin mother’s WWI diary goes online
The diary gives a fascinating glimpse into life in Ireland in 1916 for one mother whose son has been declared missing in action.
# history - Saturday 29 September, 2012
Hidden History: The Irish and the American Civil War
Did you know that nearly 200,000 Irish men (and some women) served in this war – and tens of thousands of them were killed in action?
# history - Saturday 15 September, 2012
Nutshell Review: Green Street
Every day, TheJournal.ie brings you reader-generated reviews of the hottest tickets at the ABSOLUT Fringe Festival 2012.
# history - Sunday 9 September, 2012
River Shannon gets storytelling project
Arts project wants people to relate their tales of Ireland’s longest river and its effect on their lives.
# history - Tuesday 4 September, 2012
Pic: A relic of ‘Dublin’s Finest Laundry’
And a footnote in ‘Dublin’s All-Time Worst Business Naming Decisions’. Yes, it’s the Swastika Laundry.
# history - Sunday 2 September, 2012
7 Dublin curiosities that tell of capital’s inventive past
New book, Ingenious Dublin, charts the world-shaking discoveries, inventions and feats of engineering that came out of the capital – and helps you find physical signs of them yourself.
# history - Friday 31 August, 2012
Pictures: Book of Kells has a bumper morning
Check out the queues at Trinity College this morning. Welcome tourists!
# history - Thursday 30 August, 2012
Explainer: Here’s everything you need to know about the 2012 Paralympics
Don’t know much about the upcoming events? Check out our comprehensive guide.
Pep rallies and parades as Dublin gets set for the Emerald Isle Classic
With three days of festivities planned around Saturday’s Aviva Stadium showdown, we take a look at what’s on and where.
# history - Monday 27 August, 2012
Medieval church deterioration accelerated by ivy – and Ireland’s bad weather
Survey of Co Clare’s medieval churches finds differences in building materials and techniques across the county.
# history - Sunday 26 August, 2012
My favourite speech: Socialist Party TD Clare Daly
Continuing our summer series on TheJournal.ie of public figures’ favourite speeches, Socialist Party TD for Dublin North Clare Daly picks one of Ireland’s best known trade union leaders.
# history - Tuesday 21 August, 2012
It’s official: Ireland is a Third World country*
*But it’s probably not what you think.
# history - Sunday 19 August, 2012
National Heritage Week: What’s on today?
A record 1,550 events will take place over the next week to celebrate Ireland’s national heritage.
# history - Saturday 18 August, 2012
National Heritage Week kicks off today with 1,550 events
A record number of events will take place over the next week to celebrate Ireland’s national heritage.
Ireland’s ancient relics – what are they and how have they survived?
From their religious classification to the clues they provide archaeologists about Ireland’s chieftains and kings, here’s your guide to Irish relics.
# history - Friday 17 August, 2012
Football, eh? Here are the 21 greatest moments in Premier League history
The league turns 21 this weekend, so we’ve decided to celebrate…
# history - Monday 13 August, 2012
NLI hosts free lunchtime genealogy talks in August
The National Library of Ireland will host a series of free lunchtime talks this month.
VIDEO: How the Black Death (and potato blight) came to Ireland
Ireland was badly hit by fatal diseases over the centuries. These videos look at the history – and how Ireland coped – with some of these diseases.
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