Events

March 3 Tues 8pm Clare & Shannon Archaeological & Historical Societies, Old Ground Hotel, Ennis. Praying and singing in medieval Ireland, 1000–1600, Frank Lawrence. 6 Fri 7.30pm NUI Maynooth History […]

‘Concessions be damned, England, we want our country!’

Through their articles and editorial positions, newspapers shaped and set in motion many of the forces that created the organisations and individuals of the revolutionary years. As was often the […]

IRELAND, THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE CONGO

MICHAEL KENNEDY & ART MAGENNIS Four Courts Press €40.50 ISBN 9781846825231 Reviewed by Thomas O’Loughlin To appreciate this important book one must note the opening sentences with care: ‘This book […]

Captain Jack White: imperialism, anarchism and the Irish Citizen Army

LEO KEOHANE Merrion Press €20.25 pb, €49.95 hb ISBN 9781908928931 Reviewed by Angus Mitchell Of the many strands of radical thought to be reckoned with in the ideological crossfire of […]

Ireland’s Great War

KEVIN MYERS Lilliput Press €20 ISBN 9781843516354 Reviewed by Myles Dungan Sometime back in the 1970s a seventeen-year-old UCD scholarship candidate faced the might of Prof. Kevin B. Nowlan and […]