JUDGING SHAW

FINTAN O’TOOLE Royal Irish Academy €30 ISBN 9781908997159 By Peter Gahan It’s about time that Ireland took Bernard Shaw seriously, and Fintan O’Toole in his convincingly argued and highly readable […]

FOOD RIOTING IN IRELAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES: the moral economy and the Irish crowd

By Eoin Dillon JAMES KELLY, Four Courts Press, €45, ISBN 9791846826399 Eoin Dillin is a scholar of twentieth-century African history. An extravagant generalisation: predominantly agrarian societies share some basic characteristics. […]

On this Day

BY AODHAN CREALEY MARCH 03/1947 Carol Reed’s film noir Odd Man Out, set in post-war Belfast with James Mason in the title role, opened in the city’s Classic cinema, off […]

Events

MARCH 05 Mon 6.30pm Engineers Ireland Heritage Society, 22 Clyde Road, Dublin 4. Cast-iron bridges, Ron Cox. 05 Mon 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Sq. S. […]

100 YEARS AGO: John Redmond dies

By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr John Edward Redmond was a barrister, a writer and a nationalist politician. He was an MP and was leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) […]