Divided Gaels: Gaelic cultural identities in Scotland and Ireland c. 1200–c. 1650 Wilson McLeod (Oxford University Press, £50) ISBN 0 199 247226 Ulster and the Isles in the fifteenth century: […]
Read More →What was an ‘angel’? ‘Castle chamber’? ‘Raskins’? A ‘Cunningham acre’? So asks the dust-jacket of Byrne’s dictionary of Irish local history (pp352, £20 pb, ISBN 1856354237), published by Mercier Press. […]
Read More →James Joyce and Ulysses National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin, until summer 2005 by Tony Canavan By any standards this is a remarkable exhibition and probably represents the […]
Read More →RTÉ One, 8 June Directed by Desmond Bell for Asylum Pictures & Poolbeg Productions by Eamon O’Flaherty The United States was becoming the greatest industrial power in the world […]
Read More →BELL, Laura Eliza Jane Seymour (1829?–1894), was the daughter of Robert Bell of Bellbrook, near Glenavy, Co. Antrim, a bailiff for the Hertford estate. In later life she claimed to […]
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