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Belfast Boys: how Unionists and Nationalists fought and died together in the First World War

Richard S. Grayson (Continuum Books, £25) ISBN 9781847250087 Richard Grayson’s Belfast Boys is the latest addition to a small but growing number of popular and academic books on the […]

Judging Lemass: the measure of the man

Tom Garvin (Royal Irish Academy, E30) ISBN 9781904890577 Tom Garvin opens his introduction to this book with the truthful statement that ‘Seán Lemass is commonly seen as the architect […]

England and the 1641 Irish rebellion

Cope (Boydell Press, £50) ISBN 9781843834687 The outbreak of the 1641 rebellion posed two related problems for the English administration in Ireland. First and foremost, the lords justices and […]

Bristol’s trade with Ireland and the Continent 1503–1601: the evidence of the exchequer customs accounts

Susan Flavin and Evan T. Jones (eds) (Four Courts Press, E65) ISBN 9781846821820 This 1,094-page tome reproduces the details of the cargoes of ships plying between Ireland and the […]

The lost revolution: the story of the Official IRA and the Workers’ Party

Brian Hanley and Scott Millar (Penguin Ireland, €20) ISBN 9781844881208 The front page of the September 1971 Official Republican paper The United Irishman displayed a photograph of a gunman […]

September 12

1980 The Republic of Ireland and the People’s Republic of China exchanged ambassadors for the first time, with John Campbell taking up his post in Peking and Madame Gong Pusheng taking up residence in Dublin.
1969 The Cameron Commission report placed the blame for clashes between loyalists and supporters of NICRA and People’s Democracy over the previous year on the discriminatory policies of the Stormont regime and the RUC.
1912 Father Matthew Russell (78), founder-editor of Catholic Ireland (later Irish Monthly) from 1873, died.
1867 The Irish Constabulary was granted the prefix ‘Royal’—Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC)—in recognition of its role in suppressing the Fenian Rising in March of that year.
1814 Major-General Robert Ross, from Rostrevor, Co. Down, who famously helped himself to President Madison’s dinner before torching the White House some weeks earlier, was killed in a skirmish with American militia at North Point.
1997 President Mary Robinson, approaching the end of her one term in office, resigned to take up the role of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Belfast Boys: how Unionists and Nationalists fought and died together in the First World War

Judging Lemass: the measure of the man

England and the 1641 Irish rebellion

Bristol’s trade with Ireland and the Continent 1503–1601: the evidence of the exchequer customs accounts

The lost revolution: the story of the Official IRA and the Workers’ Party

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