The digital image archive constructed by Waterford County Museum has been awarded the Best Small Museum Web Site 2006 title at the prestigious Museums and the Web international conference held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on 22–25 March 2006. The archive currently contains some 2500 historic photographs, sketches, postcards, paintings and drawings of County Waterford. The … Read more
Two objects that sum up Ireland’s contrasting relationships with the First World War feature in a new exhibition on the Battle of the Somme that opened in France on 28 April 2006. 1916: the Battle of the Somme, an International Arena has been organised by the major museum on the Somme, the Historial de la … Read more
The Jackie Clarke Library spans nearly 400 years of Irish history and contains over 15,000 items: rare books, manuscripts, photographs, legal papers, pamphlets, handbills, newspapers, autograph books, news sheets, circulars, reports, letters, periodicals, cartoons, maps, minute books, theses, articles and proclamations. And it was put together during the lifetime of one man, Jackie Clarke, an … Read more
No Irish battle is more famous than the Battle of the Boyne. No year in Irish history is better known than 1690. Sadly, over 300 years on, a new Battle of the Boyne is under way. This time, however, it is not Protestant against Catholic. It is not a battle for sovereignty. Instead, it is … Read more
The Freeman’s Journal was published in Dublin continuously from 1763 to 1924. In its early years it was associated with the ‘patriot’ opposition in the Irish parliament—most notably Charles Lucas, Henry Grattan and Henry Flood. Lucas is generally credited with having founded the paper, though its first editor was Henry Brooke, well known as an … Read more