Round up

Censorship, port history and Cork in 1920

The Interregnum, Alice Stopford Green & the Great Parchment Book of Waterford

Shackleton’s sisters, First World War brides & Home School Histories

Partition, Harry Clarke, U-Boats & the 17th century beef trade

Partition, Helen Hooker O’Malley & Edith Somerville

The American Civil War, the sinking of HMS Wasp & the Ulster Museum’s extraordinary collections

A post-Easter post including the Belfast Blitz, the 1918-19 flu pandemic & the history of emotion

Skibbereen Heritage Centre, St Patrick’s Day & wartime rugby

‘Mr Yeats & the Beastly Coins’, old photos of Cork & the Benin Bronzes

International Women’s Day & Limerick 100 years ago

The Cricket Bat that Died for Ireland (and some other things)

Creative Centenaries website, the Anglo-Zulu War and Medieval pilgrimage

India, Dublin, Cork City & Drimoleague

Legacies of slavery from Bristol via Belfast & intelligence in the War of Independence

Maps, shipyards and our very own Mount Gabriel

Bad Bridget, Rex Ingram and murder in Co Cork

13 December: our not-quite weekly at this time of year round-up

22 November: almost too much history this week…..

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