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. […]

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 […]