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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

August 22

1998 The INLA announced a ceasefire, ending their 23-year campaign. During that time they killed over 140, many of whom were their own members.

1997 Brendan Smyth (70), notorious priest, died in the Curragh Prison one month into a twelve-year prison sentence for child sexual abuse.

1922 Michael Collins (31), commander-in-chief of pro-Treaty government forces, was kille2d in an ambush at Béal na mBláth, near Macroom, Co. Cork.

1914 27,000 French soldiers were killed in a German counter-offensive—the deadliest day in the history of France.

1802 George Thomas, mercenary soldier known as the ‘Rajah from Tipperary’, died at Bahrampur, having been deposed by Sikh forces assisted by the French.