‘Decade of Centenaries’ website launched

www.decadeofcentenaries.com In late November the official ‘Decade of Centenaries’ website was launched—an initiative of the Department of Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, in association with History Ireland. Over the course […]

On this day

January 1 1974 The power-sharing Northern Ireland executive, under Chief Executive Brian Faulkner, took up office. Three days later Faulkner was forced to resign as leader of the Official Unionist […]

Angry protests greet de Valera’s last address to the Oireachtas

De Valera’s return to the Oireachtas was in the context of the ceremonies to mark the golden jubilee of the first meeting of Dáil Éireann, which had sat for the […]

Sidelines

Errol got all the fame, but his father, Theodore Flynn, a respected academic, deserves recognition too. So think Tony and Vicki Harrison, Australian writers who have penned a biography of […]

Drawing a line under the Troubles?

James Hughes’s article in this issue on the counterinsurgency theory and practice of General Sir Frank Kitson (pp 44–8) is indeed timely, particularly in the wake of the ‘Panorama’ documentary […]