‘’Pon my word, taking it all in, that young man didn’t do so badly by my Custom House’, muses a congenial ghost of James Gandon in a Dublin Opinion cartoon […]
Read More →This significant and provocative book raises many questions about history-writing in Ireland. It is based on previously published articles by John Regan concerning the Treaty, Michael Collins and Southern nationalism, […]
Read More →Ruth Musielak, Charlemont’s Marino: portrait of a landscape (OPW, no price given, 80pp, ISBN 9781406428223). Saothar 38: (Irish Labour History Society, ?25, 192pp, ISSN 03321169). Bryan MacMahon, Robert Tressell, Dubliner: […]
Read More →Cavan County Museum inhabits a nineteenth-century house that was once home to a gentry family and then a convent. The exhibition area is spread over three floors and a good […]
Read More →1972 remains a key year of the ‘Troubles’: the year that witnessed the highest death toll, the most notorious mass killing—‘Bloody Sunday’—and what has by now become the most infamous […]
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