Lone crusader: David Thornley and the intellectuals

Lone crusader: David Thornley and the intellectuals Edward Thornley (Ashfield Press, €21.50) ISBN 9789068798   The premature death of David Thornley in June 1978 deprived Ireland of a significant intellectual […]

The men will talk to me: Kerry interviews by Ernie O’Malley

The men will talk to me: Kerry interviews by Ernie O’Malley Cormac K.H. O’Malley and Tim Horgan (eds) (Mercier Press, €19.99) ISBN 9781856359528   The title of this collection conveys […]

‘Benevolent employer in the Quaker tradition’?

The factory opened its Dublin operation in 1851, and by 1911 it employed approximately 3,000 workers. George Jacob, chairman from 1902 to 1931, is remembered in the Dictionary of Irish […]

The advantages of biography

The centenary of the revolutionary decade will focus public attention as never before on the events that led to partition and independence. Given the current context—relative stability in the North, […]

Prostitution

The republican trade unionist and ITGWU organiser P.T. Daly alleged that the low wages paid to the female employees at Jacob’s factory were ‘the cause of driving many of them […]