Seán Russell

The Observer and the Irish Independent reported (2 January 2005) that an anonymous group claimed responsibility for vandalising the statue of IRA leader Seán Russell in Fairview Park, Dublin. It […]

Ireland, Germany and the Nazis 1919–1939

Sir, —In Colonel J.P. Duggan’s review of my recent Ireland, Germany and the Nazis 1919–1939 (HI 12.3, Autumn 2004) he courteously suggests that it is a ‘positive contribution’. Nonetheless the […]

Traveller (non-) history

A chara —I am writing to highlight some discrepancies in Sinead ní Shuinéar’s article, ‘Apocrypha to canon: inventing Irish Traveller history’, in the last (Winter 2004) issue. Ní Shuinéar points […]

Reds and the Green: Ireland, Russia and the Communist Internationals 1919–43

Reds and the Green: Ireland, Russia and the Communist Internationals 1919–43 Emmet O’Connor (UCD Press, €25) ISBN 1904558208With the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the archives of the […]

The Crimean journals of the Sisters of Mercy 1854–56

The Crimean journals of the Sisters of Mercy 1854–56 Maria Luddy (ed.) (Four Courts Press, €55) ISBN 1851827560 Nuns have been getting such bad publicity recently that we are inclined […]