Laurence Kettle

Laurence Kettle was born in 1878, a son of Andrew Kettle, the Parnellite politician and one of the founders of the Land League. He was a brother of Tom Kettle, […]

Seán Lemass and Laurence Kettle: Agents for technical change and industrial research

The first years of the Irish state saw the continuation of free market and free trade policies and practices favoured by Britain. As Mary Daly has put it, ‘The Irish […]

MacNeill as historian

As a historian MacNeill’s credentials were strong indeed, giving him a position of authority as one who sought to ‘define’ Irishness by examining the most important constituent of national identity […]

Suspicious of ‘statist’ nationalism

MacNeill, though straightforwardly a nationalist, in fact disliked the latter term (at least for many of its late nineteenth/early twentieth-century connotations, though he did refer to it more favourably in […]

James Connolly at the GPO: the clothing of the commandant general

On the morning of Easter Monday, 24 April 1916, members of the Irish Citizen Army and the Irish Volunteers gathered at Liberty Hall. Though these were separate organisations, James Connolly, […]