Far away from Denis Johnston’s leafy suburbs, Dublin’s inner city was suffering a major housing crisis in the early 20th century. Although the population increased by 20% between the census of 1851 and that of 1901, Dublin had also managed in that time to go from the 2nd largest city […]
Monthly archives: May 2015
The 1916 Junior Sophister term examinations were due to be held in Trinity College on Tuesday and Wednesday 25 and 26 April. Eileen Corrigan, a student from Belfast, travelled to Dublin by train on Easter Monday to attend them, and an account of her experiences appeared in the ‘Belfast Evening […]
The events of Easter 1916 appear to have had little or no immediate impact on the young composer Ina Boyle (1891-1967). Living in the secluded environment of her family home, Bushey Park in Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow (where her father was Church of Ireland curate), Boyle was more closely affected by […]
The enforcement of the Defence of the Realm Act at the outbreak of WWI made it an offence to publish divisive false reports or inflammatory press articles. Up until the Easter Rising, some republican newspapers such as the ‘Irish Bulletin’, ‘Éire Ireland’, ‘The Leader’ and ‘Irish Volunteer’ all benefited from […]