A Danger to the Men?For over three hundred years, Trinity College, Dublin founded in 1592 refused entry to women. In 1892, this bar was challenged head on when ten thousand Irish women signed a petition demanding its abolition. Despite on going opposition to the higher education of women, in 1904 Trinity College became the first of the historic universities of Britain and Ireland to admit women to degrees. A century later, sixty per cent of the student body is female,

and finally

which place so much weight on the act of remembering itself

Hundreds were burned alive in raging bush-fires

This beautifully illustrated book is fascinating record of that achievement

Most of this literature has perished

Parnellite sense of Irish nationalism

military and ecclesiastical

arthritis and osteoporosis and more liable to die prematurely from heart disease or a stroke

appraises and documents Evans’ contribution to modern scholarship

broadcaster and man-of -letters

subject to the law of gravity’

one far more secure in its social status than that of other Catholic writers such as Charles Kickham or Canon Sheehan