BRING OUT YOUR DEAD
Continuing our series of old posts (to mark our 10th year in business), ones we feel were good, prescient or elicited some good conversation or debate, this post was first published in January 2009. Posted in response to a controversy about how we treat and curate our dead, initiated by then IT journalist Sarah Carey, […]
Bring out your dead
The debate about how we excavate, treat and curate our dead received some airing at the end of December, with Irish Times journalist Sarah Carey raising the issue in a piece recently, subsequently debated on the Pat Kenny show, resulting in Pat Wallace (director of the National Museum of Ireland) deciding to return some of […]
Pricewatch
We’ve added Pricewatch to our blogroll. Conor Pope broke the Fulacht beer story in the Irish Times and published it on his blog – congratulations to Conor on all his nominations for the Irish Blog Awards. And, while we’re at it, we really enjoyed Chris’ latest post.
Dublin 1911
The 1911 census for Dublin is now available online free and provides a great resource for family historians and genealogists throughout Ireland and the globe. The census is a huge document and the site has a searchable database of the census returns and enumerators´ summary books, all scanned and viewable. The rest of the Country […]
Wired Magazine and Ancient Beer
Great piece about the Beer Experiment in this months issue of Wired, written by Nadya Labi. We’ve been pleasantly surprised by the quality of the writing about the experiment in the media over the past months. The pieces in both the IT and Wired and in many other outlets have been well researched, thoughful, and […]
Note to Irish Times sub-editors
Twice in the past week the Irish Times has published stories (one syndicated, the other an indigenous journalist) which refer to the ‘British Isles’. We were under the impression that the embassy in London was busy correcting the British press regarding the term. Maybe we’re wrong, maybe it’s acceptable now. The Minister for Foreign Affairs […]
