Dublin’s Theatre Royal

If you lived in Dublin between 1935 and 1962, chances are you’ll remember the Theatre Royal. For other folks, if you know it at all, it may only be as a reference in Pete St. John’s Dublin in the Rare Auld Times. Either way, the Royal’s story is worth telling.

The Blitz of Belfast

Desmond Devoy

Outside of London, the people of Belfast suffered the largest cumulative loss of civilian life during a single night during the Second World War, and Germany’s infamous Blitzkreig.

Allied Irish Banks open for business in Toronto

Eamonn O’Loghlin

Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c., (AIB) has established a corporate lending branch in Toronto, having received final regulatory approvals from the Irish and Canadian authorities.

Wicklowman Dalton Philips key to Loblaw Future Success

Eamonn O’Loghlin

As he edges towards the 40 year milestone, Loblaw Companies Limited Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President, Dalton Philips delights in the challenges laid out for him in this behemoth corporation of 135,000 employees, over 1,200 stores and turnover of $28 billion.

Thomas D'Arcy McGee - Canada's Celtic Martyr

Brian Hurley

Turning to the index of the latest edition of the Penguin History of Canada you will not find an entry with his name. Were you to float his name at a cocktail party you are likely to do a bit better with some hazy responses having to do with ‘Fenianism’, ‘Confederation’, ‘alcohol’ and ‘assassination’ beginning to form a rough picture. But for David Wilson, professor in the Celtic Studies Program at the University of Toronto, there is much to say indeed about the life of the man born in Carlingford in 1825 and killed, by a bullet to the head, in Ottawa in 1868 called Thomas D’Arcy McGee.