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Although the GAA hierarchy has sought to portray the deal with Sky as a success and consider the reaction of people in Britain to be ‘a vindication’, the reality is, at best, much more complex – and one might legitimately arrive at entirely the opposite conclusion.
This From the Archives post features an extract from the minute book of the Literary and Historical Society of University College Dublin, February 1915.
Dr Ivar McGrath, senior lecturer in the UCD School of History and Archives, recently gave this interview for History Hub on ‘Mapping State and Society in Eighteenth-Century Ireland’, a project on which he is a Principal Investigator. The interview focussed on a new pilot website ‘Army Barracks of Eighteenth-Century Ireland’ which is part of the wider project. The website has been developed in UCD and is now live.
![Anglo-Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw writing in notebook at time of first production of his play "Pygmalion.". See page for author [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.](/assets/George_Bernard_Shaw_notebook_960.jpg)
Three documents from the Desmond and Mabel FitzGerald Papers (UCD Archives) released as part of our From the Archives Centenary Special. Includes a letter from GB Shaw.
In 1898, a year when statues commemorating the rebellion of the United Irishmen were being erected all over Ireland, the monument to Betsy Gray in Ballynahinch, county Down – the only statue of the 1798 centennial dedicated to a woman – was violently destroyed. In April 2014, Dr Guy Beiner (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) visited UCD to give a lecture – Intra-Community Remembering and Forgetting: Commemorative Possessiveness and Envy in Ulster – as part of the Irish Memory Studies Network’s lecture series on Memory and Community.
