BOOKWORM

Tom Burnell, Irishmen in the Great War: reports from the front 1914 (Pen & Sword Military, £19 hb, 252pp, ISBN 9781473821200). Turtle Bunbury, The glorious madness: tales of the Irish […]

BIRTH OF A NATION—THE EVOLUTION OF IRISH NATIONHOOD, 1641–1916’

County Museum, Jocelyn Street, Dundalk dundalkmuseum.ie By Tony Canavan Dundalk has been quick off the mark in mounting the country’s first exhibition about the 1916 Rising, which was officially opened […]

W.B. Yeats: sex, death and the state of the nation

W.B. Yeats: sex, death and the state of the nation By John Gibney Last year marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of the poet and playwright William Butler Yeats. […]

Oscar Traynor and ‘the crime of playing soccer’

OSCAR TRAYNOR WAS A CONVENTIONAL MEMBER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY GENERATION, BUT WHAT MARKED HIM OUT FROM MANY OF HIS COLLEAGUES WAS HIS ALLEGIANCE TO WHAT WAS OFTEN DISMISSED AS A […]

Flags of the Fenians

By Lar Joye The Irish Republican Brotherhood, more commonly known as the Fenians, was founded simultaneously in Ireland and the United States in March 1858. By 1861, at the start […]