Seán O’Casey was secretary of the Irish Citizen Army and wrote ‘ICA Notes’ in The Worker and the Irish Worker. While James Connolly attacked the British, O’Casey attacked the Volunteers […]
Read More →GAVIN M. FOSTER Palgrave Macmillan £60 In this latest addition to the historiography of the Civil War, Gavin Foster essentially offers a reconceptualising of class debates. He sets out to […]
Read More →JAMES CURRY AND CIARÁN WALLACE Dublin City Council/Four Courts Press €19.95 Thomas Fitzpatrick was an artist of the Cultural Revival, although he is seldom cited in that respect. His name […]
Read More →TOM O’DONOGHUE Palgrave Macmillan £61 Catholic teaching brothers is part of an interdisciplinary series, Historical Studies in Education, which features new scholarship on key historical developments in education. Offering a […]
Read More →EDEL BHREATHNACH Four Courts Press €24.95 ISBN 9781846823428 For those of us preoccupied with Irish history it is a sobering experience to look up the word ‘Ireland’ in a History […]
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