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A Look Inside Dublin’s Freemasons Hall

A Look Inside Dublin’s Freemasons Hall

Oct 4, 2021

What goes on inside the Dublin premises of the Grand Lodge of the Ancient, Free and Accepted Freemasons of Ireland on Molesworth Street? With 22,000 members on the island of Ireland, it's a lot more down-to-earth, albeit in an up-in-the-clouds way, than the secret...
Hugh Gough – Of Opium Wars & the Punjabi Sikhs

Hugh Gough – Of Opium Wars & the Punjabi Sikhs

Oct 4, 2021

Hugh Gough commanded in more battles than any other British soldier of the nineteenth century save for his fellow Irishman, the Duke of Wellington. This included his victories in the Opium War and the Anglo-Sikh Wars. His mother was a Bunbury. Complete access to all...
The Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854

The Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854

Oct 4, 2021

114 Irishmen rode out with the Light Brigade in their famous charge. Indeed, a third of the 'British' soldiers who fought in the Crimean War are reckoned to have been Irish, including 7,000 who died. This article looks at the charge, and those manifold Irish...
The Clonmel Show (1865-2015)

The Clonmel Show (1865-2015)

Aug 11, 2021

The Clonmel Show has survived some of the darkest days in Irish history, through times of local agitation, national crisis, global conflict and Covid 19. This account was commissioned by the Clonmel Show Committee as part of the 150th anniversary celebrations in 2015....