Posthumous deification is always a danger, particularly with someone who is the very stuff of legend.  Even in his mid-forties, Sarsfield was legendary.  By the time he died, he was already securely placed in the Irish Pantheon.  Today, he is still up there with the greatest: Mindful of our great instructors, Sarsfield, Emmet, Davis, Tone, [...]

The right of the Irish peers to be represented in the House of Lords was part of the unfinished business of Ireland left behind when the Irish Free State was established in 1922, reflecting the fact that the arrangements then made were regarded by all sides as an interim settlement. Most of these peers were [...]

The Life and Times of Marie Edme Patrice Maurice De McMahon, Duc De Magenta (1808-93), President of France Marie Edme Patrice Maurice de McMahon, Duc de Magenta, was President of France from 1873 to 1879. He was the only one of the Irish in Europe to become a head of state, and as President of [...]

A HIGHLY interesting and original account of the Civil War in Limerick is published in an edition of the Old Limerick Journal (No 38). For many years, one of the participants in that bloody conflict, city man PJ Ryan, tried to get his account of what was to become known as the Fourth Siege of [...]