International Conference on Hunger An internationalconference on hunger, featuring nearly fifty speakers—including Homi K.Bhabha, Terry Eagleton and Seamus Deane, among many others—willcommemorate the 150th anniversary of the Great Famine on […]
Read More →Janet K. TeBrake Among the many resources available for historical study and research on nineteenth-century Ireland are the numerous personal narratives by women, the most common form of writing women […]
Read More →Gabriel Doherty It is a dry, frosty January night in Dublin. Suddenly the silence of a suburban street is shattered by the sound of automatic gunfire: it appears that an […]
Read More →David Officer Historians of Ireland regularly harp on about the often blunt and crude forms in which the past is mobilised by contemporary interests. However, historians themselves pay scant attention […]
Read More →John S. Powell It was a sure sign that the Huguenot plantation of Portarlington in County Laois was dead when a historian turned it into an article (Sir Erasmus Borrowes […]
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