The Irish Times

Head to Durrow for the family silver and jewels

Sheppard’s auction features diamond brooch given to woman in 1859

Sat Mar 04 2017 - 06:00

From the Archives: December 19th, 1859

It took more than two weeks for news of the execution of ‘John Browne’ – the American anti-slavery activist John Brown, who helped spark the American Civil War – to reach Dublin in 1859, prompting this editorial in the newspaper’s first year of publication

Sat Dec 19 2015 - 01:00