By Penny McGovern For this winter issue we present a couple of cheery Christmas crackers from the IFI Archive Player. See festive crowds gathering in 1960s Dublin city centre and […]
Read More →By Gabriela Lojewska and Philip McEvansoneya The exhibition of Polish art that took place in Dublin in 1937 was a doubly significant event. First, it was an episode in the […]
Read More →By Gerry Finnegan Membership of the League of Nations was the first major foreign policy objective of the new Irish Free State, achieved 100 years ago on 10 September 1923. […]
Read More →By Daniel Mulhall When the Swedish Academy announced its 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature, it opted for a writer who had produced what it described as ‘always inspired poetry, which […]
Read More →By Charles Lysaght The Kildare Street Club was well described by nationalist leader John Dillon as ‘the sacred ark of the covenant of Toryism; of the most benighted Toryism in […]
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