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Ghosts of the Somme

JONATHAN EVERSHED Notre Dame Press £43 ISBN 9780268103859 Reviewed by Brian Hanley Brian Hanley is a research fellow at the University of Edinburgh. In contemporary Ireland, many see commemoration of […]

Dublin’s great wars: the First World War, the Easter Rising and the Irish Revolution

RICHARD GRAYSON Cambridge University Press £20 ISBN 9781107029255 Reviewed by John Gibney John Gibney is DFAT100 Project Co-ordinator with the Royal Irish Academy’s Documents on Irish Foreign Policy project. Richard […]

Cultural exchange and identity in late medieval Ireland: the English and Irish of the four obedient shires

SPARKY BOOKER Cambridge University Press £75/€83 ISBN 9781107128088 Reviewed bySimon Egan Simon Egan is a postdoctoral fellow in medieval history at the University of Glasgow. The debate surrounding the extent […]

Poema de Hibernia: a Jacobite Latin epic on the Williamite Wars

PÁDRAIG LENIHAN and KEITH SIDWELL (eds) Irish Manuscripts Commission €50 ISBN 9781906856597 Reviewed byThomas Black Thomas Black is a doctoral researcher in early modern Scottish and Irish literature at the […]

Cambridge history of Ireland, Vol. 3: 1730–1880

JAMES KELLY (ed.) Cambridge University Press ISBN 9781107115200 Reviewed by Timothy Murtagh For anyone looking for a general survey of Irish history, the last several years have represented a bonanza […]

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.

Ghosts of the Somme

Dublin’s great wars: the First World War, the Easter Rising and the Irish Revolution

Cultural exchange and identity in late medieval Ireland: the English and Irish of the four obedient shires

Poema de Hibernia: a Jacobite Latin epic on the Williamite Wars

Cambridge history of Ireland, Vol. 3: 1730–1880

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