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Christmas Then & Now

Christmas Then and Now

By Colum McCann
IA Newsletter, December 21, 2024

December 20, 2023 by 1 Comment

Every Christmas Morning Now, Every Christmas Morning Then Every Christmas morning now is full of every Christmas morning then, and in the old unaccountable unfolding of memory I can’t rest on a single time when it all took shape, but this is the story of a suburban Christmas, an Irish Christmas, a Dublin Christmas, a Christmas in the four-bedroom house where I spent my first … [Read more...] about Christmas Then and Now

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December 18, 1781

Barry Yelverton introduced the bill that will become Yelverton’s Act on this day in 1781. The bill was a modification to Poyning’s Law, which was already in place, and stated that all laws passed by both houses of the Irish parliament should be forwarded to England to become law by royal assent. This took the power to amend laws away from the Irish privy councils.

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