Seán McLoughlin

Sir, —I bought your magazine for the first time recently while waitingfor a train at Heuston Station. I really enjoyed it, but theoutstanding article was by Charlie McGuire on Seán […]

1916 glorification distasteful

Sir, —Hot on the heels of comparing Ulster unionists to the Nazis, it now seems that Mary McAleese wishes to reinstate the glorification of a rebellion that caused immeasurable suffering […]

TV Eye

The man who lost Ireland RTÉ 1, Tuesday 18 April, 10.15pm Hidden History Directed by Darragh Byrne Produced by Steve Carson by Eamon O’Flaherty The public appetite for analyses of […]

Witnesses inside the Easter Rising

Witnesses inside the Easter Rising Annie Ryan (Liberties Press, ?12.95) 0954533550In 1947, as the generation that had lived through the 1916 Rising and the War of Independence entered their fifties […]

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 […]