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Teresa Brayton: In an Irish Twilight : Introduction
Full text linkTeresa Brayton, poet, literary nationalist, author of "The Old Bog Road" was born in Kilbrook, Kilcock in 1868. She emigrated to America in 1895 and became well known in Irish-American circles. She published extensively in many American newspapers and magazines and was closely associated with the 1916 Rising. In 1913 she published her first book of poetry called "Songs of the Dawn, The Flame of Ireland" appeared in 1926 and "Christmas Verses" in 1934. Her main themes were the exile's nostalgic loss of homeland, nationalism and religion. She returned permanently to Ireland in 1932 and died in her home Kilbrook in 1943. Presidnet de Valera unveiled a memorial cross over her grave in 1959
The Domesday Books – the great survey of England
Full text linkSpecial Collections has recently added the Domesday Books to its collections. This collection was photo-zinchgraphed by Her Majesty’s command at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton under the direction of Colonel Sir H. James between the years 1861-63. The counties in our collection which are individually bound include Berkshire, Hampshire, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Somerset, Wiltshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Cheshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Worcestershire, Nottinghamshire, Huntingdonshire, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk and Lancashire
Tom Kettle (1880-1916)
Full text linkTom Kettle whose 100th anniversary is on September 9th died during the Battle of the Somme along with over 3,500 other Irishmen. Tom Kettle was for some a compromised nationalist. While on an arms buying assignment to Belgium in 1914 he witnessed first-hand German atrocities against the civilian populations in Belgium and France. His experience led him to join the Daily News, become a war correspondent and he subsequently assisted in humanitarian work. When he returned to Ireland he answered Redmond’s call to fight for England with the promise of gaining Home Rule. His experience resulted in him breaking out of the insular approach of Irish nationalism and adopting a more European approach of which Ireland was a part – “My only counsel to Ireland is, that to become deeply Irish, she must become European”
The voice of Banba: Brian O’Higgins / Brian Ó hUigínn (1882-1963)
Full text linkAs we are remembering this year Irish men and women who played a leading part in the 1916 Rising I would like to remember a lesser known personality from the neighbouring county of Meath who was in the GPO for the duration of the Rising. He was Brian O‘Higgins, the
uncompromising republican, 1916 veteran, Irish teacher, poet in Irish and English, balladeer and historian. His brand of patriotism encompassed both the pen and the sword
The Ecclesiastical history of Hortland Graveyard
Full text linkHortland Graveyard or as it was formely called Scullogestown was one of eight parishes in the barony of Ikeathy and Oughterany. It is now part of the present parish of Kilcock and Newtown. There is some evidence that the Normans choose this strategically advantageous location to build a castle, church and possibly monastery. The only physical evidence that now remains is the motte and baptismal font. In 1745 Revd. Josiah Hort, Archbishop of Tuam, purchased 868 acres in Scullogestown from the Fitzgeralds. He changed the name to Hortland and built a mansion using the stone from the old church
Louis le Brocquy (1916-2012)
Full text linkThis month marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Louis le Brocquy who was born in Dublin on the 10th November 1916. In a career spanning over seventy years he has received many accolades and awards. He won the Premio Acquisito Internationale in 1956 and in Ireland he is the only painter to be included during his lifetime in the Permanent Irish Collection of the National Gallery of Ireland. He received an honorary D. Litt. from UCD in 1962 and has received honorary PhDs from Dublin Institute of Technology and Dublin City University. His work is exhibited in many public collections including the Guggenheim, New York and the Tate Modern, London
Florilegium Insulae Sanctorum, seu vitae et acta sanctorum Hiberniae
Full text linkThe Russell Library holds a copy of Thomas Messingham’s (ed) Florilegium Insulae Sanctorum which was published in 1624. Thomas Messingham was an Irish hagiologist, born in the neighbouring county of Meath around 1575
Sir Hugh Lane (1875-1915)
Full text linkThis year marks the hundredth anniversary of the death of Hugh Lane. He was born in County Cork in 1875 and was brought up in Cornwall, England and went on to become an apprentice painting restorer and later became a successful art dealer in London. He maintained contact with Ireland and his aunt Lady Gregory through regular visits to Coole, Co. Galway. There he came in contact with family and friends who became the nucleus of the Irish cultural renaissance of the early 20th century
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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