One of the perils of editorial writing, especially in a bi-monthly magazine such as this, is the risk of giving hostages to fortune. By the time you read this, the […]

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By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr   Though the Home Rule Bill of 1886 met with fierce opposition, it was Parnell’s affair with the married Katharine O’Shea that was fatal to […]

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DON O’LEARY Eryn Press €18.99 ISBN 9781788461641 Reviewed by Peter Boylan Peter Boylan is a former Master of the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin.   Don O’Leary examines a range of […]

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BARRY KENNERK (ed.) Ashbourne Historical Society €20 ISBN 9781527254633 Reviewed by Stephen Doyle Stephen Doyle is a history graduate of University College Dublin. In his hilariously tongue-in-cheek 1967 article, ‘How […]

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GILLIAN O’BRIEN Doubleday €16.99 ISBN 9781781620502 Reviewed by John Gibney John Gibney is Assistant Editor with the Royal Irish Academy’s Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series. Gillian O’Brien’s new book […]

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