Michael Collins and the British press

Collins took an interest in how he was portrayed in the press and understood the value of good publicity. BY ALISON MARTIN By the time of his assassination in August […]

SEEN ON TV: Píopaire

TG4 12 April 2020 DoubleBand Films By Donal Fallon In late 2002, music journalist Leagues O’Toole was presenting No Disco, a popular alternative music show on RTÉ television. The show […]

Creative women of Ireland: artists and writers from the archives

Royal Irish Academy https://www.ria.ie/online-exhibition-creative-women-ireland-artists-and-writers-archives By Tony Canavan The COVID-19 crisis presents challenges to cultural institutions, as they have had to close their doors to the public and operate with a […]

BOOKWORM

By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls The decade of centenaries trundles on. We have entered the final third, the violence ramps up and a bitter conclusion in vicious civil war comes faintly […]

THE INTELLIGENCE WAR AGAINST THE IRA

THOMAS LEAHY Cambridge University Press £18.99 pb 9781108767033 Reviewed by Patrick Mulroe Patrick Mulroe is the author of Bombs, bullets and the border. Policing Ireland’s frontier: Irish security policy, 1969–1978 […]