War of Independence propaganda in Killiney 1920

28 February 2022 | author

The most notorious 1920 attempt by the British authorities to use the visual media of photography and film to sway British public opinion against the Irish Republican cause came in the guise of the so-called Battle of Tralee.Read More

Mount Mapas

27 January 2022 | author

Mount Mapas was the first house to be built on Victoria Road and the southern end of the Vico Road. Read More

Queenstown

28 December 2020 | author

‘South View of Queenstown from Killiney Bay proposed to be built on the Obelisk Hill of Killiney near Kingstown in the County Dublin’ by Joseph Patrick Haverty 1840 Article from The Irish Penny Journal 5th June 1841

Our metropolitan readers, … Read More

Mount Eagle

20 November 2020 | author

In 1838 Symes exhibited plans of ‘a villa, now erecting at Brighton Cliff, at the south side of Killiney Hill, for Robert Warren Esq.’ at the Royal Hibernian Academy.Read More