Thursday 29 September 2016

1960-1964 Congo in Crisis: The Rise and Fall of Katangan Secession

Congo in Crisis: The Rise and Fall of Katangan Secession: When the Republic of the Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) became independent from Belgium in June 1960, the new country immediately descended into a political chaos known as the “Congo Crisis.” The arbitrary boundaries drawn by Colonial powers combined with leftover racial tensions and general uncertainty led to violence along racial lines …

Monday 26 September 2016

Latest estimates are about double the 400 mentioned here in 2012 were lost from the County+City in WW 1. Kilkenny families in the Great War

Kilkenny families in the Great War: The project to document the men and women of Kilkenny who were involved in the Great War (1914-1918) began in 1995. Since then over 3000 men and women who were Kilkenny natives, or who lived for considerable periods of their lives in Kilkenny, have b...

Friday 16 September 2016

White House Kalami Corfu-Durrell's House

Gala screening of the late Hubert Butler documentary in city

Gala screening of the late Hubert Butler documentary in city: Hubert Butler, one of Kilkenny’s dearest sons, is honoured in a new feature-length documentary by Johnny Gogan of Bandit Films’. An inaugural Kilkenny Gala Screening of this documentary will take place in the Set Theatre on Saturday April...

Tuesday 13 September 2016