Thomas Russell, librarian

Few have shown such lack of enthusiasm for appointment as a librarian as Thomas Russell! He was with Wolfe Tone in Dublin when he heard the news on 17 January […]

Michael Dwyer of Imaal

Michael Dwyer of Imaal, Wicklow, joined the United Irishmen in the spring of 1797 and fought as captain of a Talbotstown rebel corps during the 1798 Rebellion. Having seen action […]

The People’s Rising: Wexford 1798 Daniel Gahan (Gill and Macmillan, £12.99) The Mighty Wave: the 1798 Rebellion in Wexford Dáire Keogh and Nicholas Furlong (eds.) (Four Courts, £9.99) Sir Richard Musgrave’s Memoirs of the Irish Rebellion of 179

It was commonplace in the late 1970s and early 1980s for political historians to venture that the imbalance in Lecky’s coverage of the eighteenth century, which prompted him to devote […]

Matilda Tone & the American legacy of 1798

Despite the enormous wealth of sources, and much superb ethnic historiography over the course of two centuries, the story of 1798 and the United Irish diaspora has consistently escaped the […]

Rebellions: memoir, memory and 1798

Tom Dunne (Lilliput Press, 320) ISBN 1843510391 In this ambitious and often deeply personal book, Tom Dunne offers his own perspective on Irish history, on the process of historical commemoration […]