Navigating the Zeitgeist: a story of the Cold War, the New Left, Irish republicanism, and international communism

HELENA SHEEHAN Monthly Review Press €25 ISBN 9781583677278 Reviewed by:Anthony Coughlan Anthony Coughlan is Associate Professor Emeritus of Social Policy, Trinity College, Dublin. Professor Helena Sheehan is internationally known as […]

ON THIS DAY

BY AODHÁN CREALEY JANUARY 06/1834 Richard Martin (79), landowner and politician, died. Residing in Dangan House, some four miles upstream on the Corrib from Galway city, Martin, who sat in […]

Irish research finds lost news world in Medici Archives

Handwritten news was exchanged across Europe in what was a lucrative and powerful network. By Eoin Hahessy Irish research has found an entirely lost news environment in the Medici papers […]

Events

JANUARY 05 Sun 2pm National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street. Tour: Power, prayer and pattens—women in medieval Ireland (not wheelchair accessible). 07 Mon 7.45pm Donaghadee Historical Society, Methodist Church Hall, […]

100 YEARS AGO:Local elections bring proportional representation to Ireland

By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr In the general election of December 1918 the newly re-formed Sinn Féin party had secured a large majority of seats (73 out of 105, or […]