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‘I am of Ireland’: Mother Ireland between history and myth

In this month’s blog, Terry Clavin explores the impact of a fourteenth-century manuscript on how Ireland was symbolised in twentieth-century poetry and politics.

Kathaleen Ní Houlihan! Why

Must a country, like a ship or a car, be always female,

Mother or sweetheart?


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Census fever: what is all the fuss about?

In this month’s blog, Angela Byrne reflects on what the release of the 1926 census, recently digitised by the National Archives of Ireland, means to historians.

On Sunday 18 April 1926 there was a westerly wind with localised showers, and a night-time ground frost. The clocks went forward one hour, heralding the off...


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