Readers who profited from Micheál Ó Siochrú’s article on Oliver Cromwell in the Sept./Oct. 2008 issue or from the book from which it is drawn—God’s executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the […]
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Read More →John Horne (ed.) (Royal Irish Academy, €30/£25) ISBN 9781904890508 Thomas Davis Lectures, RTÉ Radio 1, 10 Nov. 2008–12 Jan. 2009 www.rte.ie/radio1/ourwar The combined authority of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) […]
Read More →‘The GAA is really our stamp, it’s the rural man’s stamp. It says who he is, what you stand for, where your spirit comes from, ’tis your freedom, you know.’ […]
Read More →The year 1849 was a year of portents. Some, such as the reappearance of the potato blight in May or the record number of evictions (13,384), were harbingers of the […]
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