Medieval Mile Museum

2 St Mary’s Lane, High Street, Kilkenny www.medievalmilemuseum.ie By Tony Canavan Kilkenny’s newest museum is located in one of the city’s oldest buildings, St Mary’s Church, dating back to the […]

Dunkirk

Directed by Christopher Nolan By Lar Joye Christopher Nolan has reimagined the World War II movie for a younger generation and, like Saving Private Ryan twenty years ago, has set […]

BOOKWORM

By Joe Culley Eugene Broderick, John Hearne: architect of the 1937 Constitution of Ireland (Irish Academic Press, €29.99 hb, 300pp, ISBN 9781911024538). Dr Hubert O’Connor, Napoleon’s doctor: the St Helena […]

FORGOTTEN HERO OF BUNKER VALENTIN: the Harry Callan story

MICHELE CALLAN Collins Press €14.99 ISBN 9781848893016 HITLER’S IRISH SLAVES DAVID BLAKE KNOX New Island Books €15.95 ISBN 9781848405967 Reviewed by: David O’Donoghue David O’Donoghue is the author of Hitler’s […]

THE IRISH CHURCH, ITS REFORM AND THE ENGLISH INVASION

DONNCHADH Ó CORRÁIN Four Courts Press €35 ISBN 9781846826672 Reviewed by: Conor Kostick Discussions about medieval Ireland have often been highly politicised and contested. In the early twentieth century, activists […]