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By Mark Holan

American author Leon Uris released his eighth novel, Trinity, shortly before St Patrick’s Day 1976. The title referred to its three groups of conflicting characters: poor Irish Catholics, Protestant Anglo-Irish gentry and fiery Presbyterian Scots, according to Uris biographer Ira B. Nadel. The 751-page doorstop spanned su...

By Garry Ahern

Above: The council of the Sikorski Institute in the late 1940s. In mid-1949 the Institute was urgently exploring a possible arrangement ‘for safe custody of certain archives which they want to prevent falling into the hands of the Warsaw government’. (Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum)

In 1949 the Benedictine priory at Glenstal, Co. L...

By Dermot McGuinne  

Above: Colm O Lochlainn, from a charcoal portrait by Seán O’Sullivan. (O Lochlainn family)

It is important to remind ourselves that for a period during the 1930s there was an exponent of the craft of fine printing operating in Dublin, producing work to a standard that compared favourably with the highest international practice...

Discoveries surrounding the history of St Joseph’s Industrial School, Ballinasloe, and hopes for a new oral history project.

By Abbie McGowan

Ballinasloe Library occupies the former Sisters of Mercy Convent and St Joseph’s Reformatory and Industrial School. The library is a modern space, but hints of the building’s past are glimpsed in the consp...

By Daniel Mulhall

If you visit Thomas Jefferson’s magnificent home at Monticello near Charlottesville in Virginia and view his grave, its inscription may puzzle:

Here was buried
Thomas Jefferson
Author of the
Declaration
Of
American Independence
of the
Statute of Virginia
For
Religi...