Sir,—Sylvia Kleinman is right to deplore the narrow cynicism and rehashed stereotypes that characterise the rare mentions of the French Revolution on RTÉ (HI 28.2, March/April 2020, Platform). Kleinman exposes […]
Read More →BRENDAN SCOTT (ed.) Four Courts Press €50 ISBN 9781846827358 Reviewed by David Heffernan David Heffernan is a historian of Tudor and early Stuart Ireland. The role of the towns in […]
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Read More →By Joe Buckley An Post’s stamp commemorating Ireland’s War of Independence features Seán Keating’s Men of the South. The original work hangs in the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork. Keating painted […]
Read More →BY AODHÁN CREALEY MAY 19/1935 T.E.—Thomas Edward—Lawrence (46), the legendary ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, died as a result of a motorcycle accident in Dorset. For much of his adult life […]
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