Roger Casement in Irish and world history Mary E. Daly (ed.) (Royal Irish Academy, ?30) ISBN 1904890040 This book comprises the papers delivered at a conference—‘Roger Casement in Irish and […]
Read More →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 […]
Read More →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 […]
Read More →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 […]
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