History & Folklore

This summer of 2022, saw a return to international holidays. Dublin airport hit the headlines with its four-hour check-in queues, but it wasn’t just an Irish problem. The airport authorities in Heathrow, as I write, have forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights to cut back on the throngs of […]

For those who have already DNA tested for genealogy or may be interested in doing so (for example with companies such as Ancestry, MyHeritage and 23andMe), this month is the first of a two-parter looking at some of the tools and outputs that could provide some insights that may interest […]

An Taoiseach Micheál Martin delivered a keynote and wide-ranging address at the National Civil War Conference at UCC on June 15. He dealt with several of the atrocities committed during the period including Ballyseedy and the ‘execution’ of prisoners, Dick Barrett, Rory O’Connor, Liam Mellow and Joe McKelvey, who were […]

The first casualty of the Irish Civil War in Cork was Patrick Francis McCarthy, who died in Skibbereen in July, 1922. On the centenary of the war, Pauline Murphy explains who Patrick was and the circumstances of his death. Twenty-two—year-old Patrick Francis McCarthy Jr, from Morahin near Ballydehob, was killed on […]