KEVIN HADDICK-FLYNN Matador €30 ISBN 9781838592004 Reviewed by Geoffrey Bell Geoffrey Bell’s The Protestants of Ulster was first published in 1976. Once, in the early 1960s when I was about […]
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Read More →Though subtitled ‘the Irish Revolution 1913–1923’, this work is as much concerned with how the revolution came to be remembered and contested in memory as it is with telling the […]
Read More →Reviewed by Maurice Coakley Maurice Coakley lectures in journalism and media studies at Griffith College, Dublin What can the past teach us? Professor Bryan Fanning had the idea of examining […]
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