It is widely believed that Captain William Bligh of the Royal Navy designed the North Bull Wall of the Liffey channel, causing the development of the North Bull Island. But […]
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Read More →An innovative, tenacious pioneer, Nano Nagle transcended the narrowly prescribed boundaries of her time. By Gillian O’Brien and Jessie Castle Between the early 1750s and her death in 1784 Nano […]
Read More →CAROLE HOLOHAN Liverpool University Press £80 ISBN 9781786941237 Reviewed by Tom Inglis Tom Inglis is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin. In 1966 Éamon de Valera was elected […]
Read More →CARLA KING UCD Press €50 ISBN 9781906359928 Reviewed by Conor McNamara Published towards the end of the centenary year of the 1916 Rising, Carla King’s monumental biography of the later […]
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