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Irish Politics and the Spanish Civil War, Fearghal McGarry. (Cork University Press, £16) ISBN 1859182402 The Irish & the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939, Robert Stradling. (Manchester University Press, £12) ISBN 1901341135

The appearance of two books on the relationship between the Spanish Civil War and Ireland is to be welcomed. It is often forgotten how deep an impact the conflict made […]

The Irish Border: History, Politics, Culture, Malcolm Anderson and Eberhard Bort (eds.). (Liverpool University Press, £15) IBSN 0853239517

This book represents Anderson and Bort’s fourth collaboration in four years. Having jointly edited two volumes on the eastern frontier of the European Union, they published The Frontiers of Europe […]

Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: a Life, Margaret Ward. (Attic Press, £14.95) ISBN 1855941872

When she was a young girl, her Uncle Eugene gave Hanna Sheehy the gift of a writing desk. A typical gift, probably, for one of her education and class, yet […]

Belfast memorial to James Magennis VC unveiled

Friday 8 October saw the culmination of a lengthy campaign for official recognition of the World War II hero, Leading Seaman James J. Magennis VC, in his native city. Lord […]

Ireland at the Turn of the Century

The approach of the millennium risks overshadowing the fact that 1999 is a fin de siècle year. Despite the predictable onset of millennium fever, the passage of a century is […]

April 27

1822 Ulysses Simpson Grant, general in the Union army and 18th president of the United States (1869–77), born in Ohio.
1521 Ferdinand Magellan (c. 40), Portuguese navigator, was killed by natives on the island of Mactan in the Philippines during the first circumnavigation of the Earth.
1920 The IRA attacked the RIC station at Ballylanders, Co. Limerick. The Black and Tans terrorised Limerick city the following day.
1967 The Abortion Act, making abortion legal up to 28 weeks’ gestation, came into effect in the UK, with the exception of Northern Ireland.
1953 Maud Gonne MacBride, revolutionary and iconic figure in nationalist mythology, died.
1916 Outside Hulluch, north of Loos in northern France, the 16th (Irish) Division suffered one of the heaviest gas attacks of the First World War; 538 men died and a further 1,590 were injured.
1923 Eamon de Valera offered terms for negotiation to end the Civil War, which were rejected by the Free State government.
1953 Maud Gonne (86), iconic figure in Irish nationalism, died.

Irish Politics and the Spanish Civil War, Fearghal McGarry. (Cork University Press, £16) ISBN 1859182402 The Irish & the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939, Robert Stradling. (Manchester University Press, £12) ISBN 1901341135

The Irish Border: History, Politics, Culture, Malcolm Anderson and Eberhard Bort (eds.). (Liverpool University Press, £15) IBSN 0853239517

Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: a Life, Margaret Ward. (Attic Press, £14.95) ISBN 1855941872

Belfast memorial to James Magennis VC unveiled

Ireland at the Turn of the Century

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April 27