Richard Lawrence Jordan Syracuse University Press $39.95 ISBN 9780815633136 Reviewed by Brian Kennaway In The second coming of Paisley, the American historian Richard Lawrence Jordan claims to provide us with […]

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Aspiring writers are taught that it is always good to start in a way that grabs a reader’s attention, such as: ‘The history of Northern Ireland in the last four […]

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A garrulous, lightning-witted, talent-squandering, hard-drinking ‘character’, Brendan Behan embodied a certain Anglo-American stereotype of an ‘Irish writer’ to the hilt. Dead at the age of 41, his drinking was, as […]

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Alvin Jackson (ed.), The Oxford handbook of modern Irish history (Oxford University Press, £95 hb, 800pp, ISBN9780199549344) Maynooth Studies in Local History (Four Courts Press, ?9.95 pb) John R. Thullier, […]

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Powerscourt House, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow www.taraspalace.ie By Denis Casey Formerly situated at Malahide Castle and now located in three of the upper rooms of Powerscourt House, Enniskerry, Tara’s Palace and […]

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