DS: How do you come to have such an interesting name as de Courcy Ireland? JDCI: I don’t actually know the full story. The de Courcys were, of course, a historic crowd who came here in 1172 from a place in Normandy called Courcy. The name Courcy is very common in Normandy, and now in … Read more
This issue of History Ireland touches on some aspects of Ireland’s connection with Germany and the German-speaking parts of Europe. It came about by accident. The editors received a number of German-related articles and decided to commission a few more to fill out a whole magazine (Our review section will resume as usual in the … Read more
Last April Rathfarnham established its very own historical society withthe aim of promoting the history and cultural heritage of the area.Membership is open to all who pay the annual sub (£10; students £5;families £15; non-members £2 per lecture) . The society has already hadlectures on a variety of topics—nineteenth century life in Kilmashogue,Irish Folklore Department … Read more
The first Limerick Conference in Irish-German Studies gets underway atthe start of September in the University. It is exactly forty yearssince Nobel Literature Prize-winner Heinrich Böll’s Irisches Tagebuchwas first published. Böll, who died in 1985, would have been eightythis year and to mark both occasions the conference puts Böll centrestage. The programme is interdisciplinary in … Read more
The National University of Ireland is undergoing a transformation at the moment, as its constituent Colleges become Universities in their own right. But the NUI will continue to play an important part in educational life, not least in fostering and encouraging research. A good example of this role is the NUI Irish Historical Research Prize. … Read more