Massacre in West Cork: the Dunmanway and Ballygorman killings

BARRY KEANE Mercier Press £19.99 ISBN 9781781172032 The killing of thirteen Protestants in West Cork in April 1922—the ‘Ballygorman and Dunmanway massacre’—is one of the most disputed incidents in modern […]

16 Lives—Roger Casement

ANGUS MITCHELL O’Brien Press £13.85 ISBN 9781847172648 Amongst the sixteen men executed after the 1916 Rising, the one whose role is most difficult to evaluate is Roger Casement. He comes […]

The Rising dead: RIC & DMP

RAY BATESON Irish Graves Publications £17.50 ISBN 9780954227531 If Ray Bateson was lucky enough to be a tenured professor of modern Irish history with an army of research students chomping […]

Irish nationalist women, 1900–1918

SENIA PASˇETA Cambridge University Press £60 ISBN 9781107047747 Much work has been done on nationalist women in the early twentieth century. Beginning in 1922 with Helena Concannon’s Daughters of Banba, […]

JOHN REDMOND: THE NATIONAL LEADER

DERMOT MELEADY Merrion £26.50 ISBN 9781908928313 REVIEWED BY PATRICK MAUME Jessica Cunningham’s 2012 Hugh Lane Gallery lecture on the visual culture of Home Rule displayed three contemporary images of John […]