John Redmond—forerunner of the Good Friday Agreement?

In 1956 John Redmond’s political opponent Eamon de Valera paid a generous tribute to him as ‘a great Wexfordman  . . . who worked unselfishly for the welfare of this […]

Nationalism and the Irish Party: provincial Ireland 1910–1916

Nationalism and the Irish Party: provincial Ireland 1910–1916 Michael Wheatley (Oxford University Press, £50) ISBN 019927357 One of the difficulties in explaining the collapse of the Irish Parliamentary Party in […]

The Ulster Volunteers 1913-1914: force or farce?

In January 1913, Ulster Unionist resistance to Home Rule entered a more militant phase with the establishment of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). Work published on the UVF to date […]

Anna & Fanny Parnell

The Parnell sisters are exemplars of two distinct and typical streams of female action in the nineteenth century. Fanny excelled in the traditional field of philanthropic and fund-raising activities, and […]

T.M. Healy, Frank Callanan, (Cork University Press, £25). ISBN: 1859180094

The Parnell split was the most destructive in Irish history. The self-indulgence displayed exceeded by a long way that of the Treaty split. That was more strongly based on principle, […]