An Irishman’s Diary

‘Sites here are generally reluctant to use the expression ‘dark tourism’ because it implies a certain exploitation of people’

‘The Irish tended to have a very strongly held belief in their own white racial superiority’

Atrocities must never be commemorated but one-perspective narratives are propaganda

A ship carrying Irish convicts arrived in Cape Town in 1849. They never made it ashore

Patsy McGarry: Irish patriot was staunch backer of slavery and the US Confederacy

Three-part TV3 series stars Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, best known for ‘Love/Hate’

Major event to coincide with Allianz football finals at Croke Park on April 24th

Long a Gaelic revivalist, Pearse was a latecomer to politics and gunfire, his unfortunate brother an even later one

Local authority plans to transform the island into a major tourism and heritage centre

Review: Douglass, an escaped slave forced to flee the US in 1845, was so moved by the poverty he saw in Famine-era Ireland that he felt he must speak out against the causes of human suffering generally

A new book lists 31 definitive texts. Are the authors right? And what should be the 32nd?