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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, […]

SPORT AND IRELAND: A HISTORY

PAUL ROUSE Oxford University Press £30 ISBN 9780198745907 Reviewed by Kevin McCarthy Firstly, let’s be straight about it: this is a really good book, and one which should appeal in […]

IRISH HUNGER AND MIGRATION: MYTH, MEMORY AND MEMORIALIZATION

PATRICK FITZGERALD, CHRISTINE KINEALY & GERARD MORAN (EDS) Quinnipiac University Press $35/€30/£25 ISBN 9780990945406 Reviewed by Liam Kennedy Ten million people emigrated from the small island of Ireland to other […]

I mBÉAL AN BHÁIS: THE GREAT FAMINE AND The LANGUAGE SHIFT IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND

GEARÓID Ó TUATHAIGH Quinnipiac University Press and Cork University Press €11.95/£9.95 ISBN 9780990468677 Reviewed by Proinsias Ó Drisceoil Neo-liberal notions of consumer choice may have influenced a tendency to attribute […]

‘AND SO BEGAN THE IRISH NATION’: NATIONALITY, NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND NATIONALISM IN PRE-MODERN IRELAND

BRENDAN BRADSHAW Ashgate £75 ISBN 9781472442567 Reviewed by Hiram Morgan This book is a collection of essays by Brendan Bradshaw, the well-known historian of Tudor Ireland and opponent of historical […]

September 12

1980 The Republic of Ireland and the People’s Republic of China exchanged ambassadors for the first time, with John Campbell taking up his post in Peking and Madame Gong Pusheng taking up residence in Dublin.
1969 The Cameron Commission report placed the blame for clashes between loyalists and supporters of NICRA and People’s Democracy over the previous year on the discriminatory policies of the Stormont regime and the RUC.
1912 Father Matthew Russell (78), founder-editor of Catholic Ireland (later Irish Monthly) from 1873, died.
1867 The Irish Constabulary was granted the prefix ‘Royal’—Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC)—in recognition of its role in suppressing the Fenian Rising in March of that year.
1814 Major-General Robert Ross, from Rostrevor, Co. Down, who famously helped himself to President Madison’s dinner before torching the White House some weeks earlier, was killed in a skirmish with American militia at North Point.
1997 President Mary Robinson, approaching the end of her one term in office, resigned to take up the role of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

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

SPORT AND IRELAND: A HISTORY

IRISH HUNGER AND MIGRATION: MYTH, MEMORY AND MEMORIALIZATION

I mBÉAL AN BHÁIS: THE GREAT FAMINE AND The LANGUAGE SHIFT IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND

‘AND SO BEGAN THE IRISH NATION’: NATIONALITY, NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND NATIONALISM IN PRE-MODERN IRELAND

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