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Crossword July/August 2010

Listening to grasshoppers: field notes on democracy

These essays initially appeared as ‘urgent public interventions at critical moments’ between 2001 and 2008. Collected together at the conclusion of India’s blockbuster 2009 general election, they present ‘a detailed […]

From a Clear Blue Sky : surviving the Mountbatten bomb

From a clear blue sky takes the form of a three-part drama: before the bomb, after the bomb and learning to live with the bomb. But it opens with the […]

Full tilt: Ireland to India with a bicycle

The best travel books always have a back story: the line that goes back through time, tethering the writer to the reason why they wanted to write this particular book, […]

Bookworm

Over the years some rigorous, if isolated, comparative studies on Ireland and India have been published. S.B. Cook’s Imperial affinities and Margaret Kelleher’s The feminisation of famine stand out. The […]

That field of glory. The story of Clontarf, from battleground to garden suburb
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Darkest Dublin: The story of the Church Street disaster and a pictorial account of the slums of Dublin in 1913
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On this Day

June 18

1769 Robert Stewart, Lord Castlereagh, chief secretary for Ireland who secured the passage of the Act of Union (1800) and played a crucial role at the Congress of Vienna (1815), born in Dublin.
1994 The Loughinisland, Co. Down, massacre. Six local men were killed when UVF gunmen attacked a public house in the village.
1992In a referendum in the Republic of Ireland over 69% voted to accept the Maastricht Treaty.
1936 Taoiseach Éamon de Valera declared the IRA to be an illegal organisation.
1928 Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen (55) and his crew of five disappeared while flying on a rescue mission in the Arctic.
1814 David Moriarty, bishop of Kerry (1856–77), born in Kilcarragh, Co. Kerry. A staunch anti-Home Ruler, he is best remembered for the vehemence of his condemnation of the Fenians—‘Eternity is not long enough nor Hell hot enough for such miscreants’.