Greeting the nation—the Irish Christmas card

THE INTERSECTION OF CHRISTMAS SENTIMENT, NATIONAL IDENTITY AND AESTHETIC TASTE IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY IRELAND By Teresa Breathnach Just before Christmas 1916 Countess Markievicz realised that, with the advent of world […]

Between detention and destitution—the Irish in France during the Occupation

HOW DID THE IRISH IN FRANCE FARE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, A PERIOD MARKED BY THE THREAT OF INTERNMENT AND SEVERE FINANCIAL PRESSURES? WHAT WAS THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARD THE […]

Loss and litigation

THE SCANDAL OF MARGARET AND MARY BRIGID PEARSE By Teresa and Mary Louise O’Donnell Margaret Pearse, mother of Patrick and Willie, died on 22 April 1932 from a bacterial infection […]

‘Red Easter’

PLATON MIKHAILOVICH KERZHENTSEV, THE FIRST SOVIET HISTORIAN OF IRELAND By Maurice J. Casey In 1914 the Irish poet Padraic Colum and his wife Mary arrived in New York. Initially, they […]

The Brook Kerith: ‘George Moore’s blasphemy’

A BOOK THAT GENERATED COLUMNS OF COMMENT IN NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS IN LONDON, NEW YORK, PARIS AND ELSEWHERE WAS IGNORED IN IRELAND By Dennis Kennedy One hundred years ago, on […]