Unhappy the land: the most oppressed people ever, the Irish?

LIAM KENNEDY Merrion Press €22.50 ISBN 9781785370281 Reviewed by: Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh This collection of nine essays deals with Irish history across three periods. The first three provide the long […]

Churchill and Ireland

PAUL BEW Oxford University Press £16.99 ISBN 9780198755210 Reviewed by: Martin Mansergh The problem facing balanced assessment of Churchill’s dealings with Ireland is the weighting to be given to his […]

BOOKWORM

Michael English, The three castles of Dublin: an eclectic history of Dublin through the evolution of the city’s coat of arms (Dublin City Council/Four Courts Press, €26.95 hb, 272pp, ISBN […]

MUSEUM EYE: 1916 exhibitions

GPO Witness History O’Connell Street, www.gpowitnesshistory.ie Revolution 1916 Ambassador Theatre, Parnell Square, www.revolution1916.ie Kilmainham Gaol Museum www.kilmainhamgaolmuseum.ie   By Tony Canavan The new permanent exhibition at the GPO certainly shows […]

THEATRE EYE: Sunder

ANU Productions Moore Street, Dublin 1, 19 April–7 May 2016 By the time this review appears, the centenary commemoration of the Easter Rising will have been and gone, and in […]