First of the small nations. The beginnings of Irish foreign policy in the interwar years, 1919–1932

GERARD KEOWN Oxford University Press £65 ISBN 9780198745129 Reviewed by: Michael Kennedy There are two central themes running through this accessible, elegant andauthoritative account of early Irish foreign policy. Firstly, […]

On this Day

January 03/1946 William Joyce (39), Nazi propagandist known as ‘Lord Haw-Haw’, was hanged for treason in Wandsworth Jail. 05/1976 John A. Costello (84), barrister, attorney general of Ireland (1926–32) and […]

History v. commemoration?

In this issue’s Platform (pp 10–11) Felix M. Larkin rightly takes successive governments to task for their philistine neglect of our national cultural institutions, and of the National Library in […]

Events

JANUARY 08 Fri 8pm Military History Society of Ireland, Griffith College, South Circular Road, Dublin 8. Robert the Bruce’s Irish wars, Seán Duffy. 11 Mon 8pm Galway Archaeological & Historical […]

Connolly’s ‘kidnapping’

By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr Surrey House on Leinster Road was the home of Countess Markievicz. It was also where James Connolly’s The Spark and the Workers’ Republic were printed. […]