Seán MacDiarmada: the mind of the revolution Gerard MacAtasney (Drumlin Publications, €20) ISBN 1873437315 Seán McDermott—or MacDiarmada, as he styled himself—stands out as one of the key architects of the […]
Read More →James Connolly: ‘a full life’ Donal Nevin (Gill and Macmillan, ?29.99) ISBN 0717139115 Posterity has been oddly kind, even condescending, to James Connolly. While the motives and performance of many […]
Read More →‘Through the eyes of 1916’ RTÉ, 10–17 April 1966 Insurrection Directed by Louis Lentin and Michael Garvey by Brian Lynch Early in 1965, the director-general of Telefis Éireann, Kevin McCourt, […]
Read More →Since our report on the threatened demolition of 16 Moore Street, the final HQ of the 1916 leadership (HI 11.2, Summer 2003), the building has remained standing. However, despite a […]
Read More →‘At the request of the Easter Week Memorial Committee, a number of persons who participated in the Easter Week Rising, 1916 . . . undertook the task of preparing an […]
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