A land without martyrs?

St Odrán, Gerald of Wales and Christian martyrdom in medieval Ireland. By Jesse Harrington In 1186 tensions were high between the English and Irish clergy at the Lent synod convened […]

Information is power

Stop the Retention of Records Bill! By Sheila Ahern In the aftermath of the broadcast of the three-part television documentary States of fear in 1999 I naively thought that we […]

FASCISM AND CONSTITUTIONAL CONFLICT: the British extreme right and Ulster in the twentieth century

James Loughlin Liverpool University Press £90 ISBN 9781786941770 Reviewed by Niall Meehan Niall Meehan is Head of the Journalism and Media Faculty in Griffith College, Dublin, and author (with Brian […]

BITE-SIZED HISTORY

BY TONY CANAVAN War in a border county Monaghan County Museum has opened a new exhibition on the county’s role in the War of Independence. The museum’s own War of […]

THE ENIGMA OF ARTHUR GRIFFITH: ‘father of us all’

COLUM KENNY Irish Academic Press €19.95 ISBN 9781785373145 Reviewed by Owen McGee Owen McGee is the author of A history of Ireland in international relations (Irish Academic Press, 2020). Rather […]