I was very sorry to hear of the passing this week of Maurice Coveney. Sincere condolences to his family. His playing career spanned six decades, and ...

I was very sorry to hear of the passing of Eddie O’Connor. Sincere condolences to his family. His association with Dublin C.C. ...

The first Irish championship held under the newly introduced rules discussed in the last post was the 1968 event, held in Dixon Hall in Trinity ...

The ICU website has two brief items dealing with the 1947 Irish champion. The longer one, by Enda Rohan, includes the photo at right, taken at the ...

The Irish Championship 1947 was held in Cork, for the first time ever, at the C.C.Y.M.S. Hall in Castle Street. The event was structured as a ...

Many congratulations to Dublin Chess Club, who won this season’s Armstrong Cup decisively (final table). This broke a run of seven consecutive wins ...

Mike Clarke left a comment to our post Korchnoi and the car about William Collins, and more specifically sought information about Viktor Korchnoi’s ...

No, not that Morphy. These memories are of the Dublin chessplayer John Morphy. In his Evening Herald chess column for Saturday 30 July 1932, the ...

John Loughran has written to update the page on the British European Airways Cup here, which had not been updated since 2016. In ...

The National Club Championship took place at the Talbot Hotel Stillorgan over the weekend, ending today. Congratulations to Elm Mount, who won for (I ...