A week-long celebration of life in Lios Póil will spring into life at the weekend with all sorts of fun, games, sports, displays, outings and unique-to-the-parish events, the likes of which aren’t to be found anywhere else.
ONE hundred years ago, on July 20 1923, the president of the Irish Free State executive council, WT Cosgrave, announced in Dáil Éireann that he had appointed Eoin MacNeill as the "best person to represent the Saorstát [Free State] as our Nominee on the Boundary Commission".
This historic newsreel, presented by the Irish Film Institute, shows the dedication of the James Joyce Museum in Sandycove, Dublin on Bloomsday, June 16, in 1962. Bloomsday ’62 – Amharc Éireann: Eagrán 159 is now available to stream for free on the IFI Archive Player.
In May 1923, Armagh-born and newly appointed anti-Treaty IRA chief of staff Frank Aiken issued an order to republicans to dump their arms, thus bringing an end to the hostilities of the 11-month long civil war.