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Ceannt, Pearse and Plunkett form the Military Committee

By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr At the start of the First World War, the Irish Republican Brotherhood’s (IRB) Supreme Council determined that a rising should be planned and undertaken in […]

An economic history of Ireland since independence

ANDY BIELENBERG and RAYMOND RYAN Routledge £85 ISBN 9780415566940 This is a very comprehensive and hugely satisfying survey of its subject-matter. It begins with British prime minister Lloyd George’s last-minute […]

EVERYDAY VIOLENCE IN THE IRISH CIVIL WAR

GEMMA CLARK Cambridge University Press £72 ISBN 9781107036895 In this decade of commemorations, it is interesting but not surprising that the Irish Civil War has been excluded from the events […]

The Irish Citizen Army

ANN MATTHEWS Mercier Press ?14.99 ISBN 9781781171592 It may be a strange twist of historiography that the Irish Citizen Army has not attracted as much scholarly attention as the Irish […]

Rebellion: Britain’s first Stuart kings, 1567–1642

Tim Harris Oxford University Press £30 ISBN 9780199209002 This book is an ambitious attempt to investigate the problems faced by the Stuart monarchs of Britain and Ireland in the early […]

September 11

1968 Denis McCullough (85), co-founder of the Dungannon Clubs (1905) with Bulmer Hobson and director of the IRB in Ulster at the time of the Easter Rising, died.
1954 Robert Smyllie, influential editor of the Irish Times, died.
1922 The Local Government Act (NI) abolished PR for local elections and required a declaration of allegiance from persons elected to or working for local authorities.
1910 Robert Loraine, British actor and Boer War veteran, in his Henry Farman biplane became the first man to fly across the Irish Sea.
1741 Arthur Young, English agricultural theorist and traveller, and author of the acclaimed A Tour of Ireland (1780), born.
1922 The Local Government Act (NI) abolished PR, introduced by Westminster three years earlier as a ‘minority safeguard’, for local elections and required a declaration of allegiance from persons elected to or working for local authorities.
1954 Robert ‘Bertie’ Smylie (61), editor of the Irish Times since 1934, who transformed the paper from an Ascendancy viewpoint to one with a non-partisan profile, died.

Ceannt, Pearse and Plunkett form the Military Committee

An economic history of Ireland since independence

EVERYDAY VIOLENCE IN THE IRISH CIVIL WAR

The Irish Citizen Army

Rebellion: Britain’s first Stuart kings, 1567–1642

Personal Histories

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September 11