TREATY DEBATES IN THE DÁIL

By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr The Treaty debates began in the Mansion House on Dawson Street on 19 December 1921. The Dáil assembled and Eamon de Valera’s ‘Document No. Two’ […]

KITSON’S IRISH WAR: MASTERMIND OF THE DIRTY WAR IN IRELAND

DAVID BURKE Mercier Press £14.99 ISBN 9781781177983 Reviewed by Ian S. Wood Ian S. Wood is co-author (with Andrew Sanders) of Times of Troubles: Britain’s war in Northern Ireland (2012) […]

FAKE NEWS AND THE IRISH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE

MICHAEL B. BARRY Andalus Press €15.99 ISBN 9780993355486 Reviewed by Maurice Walsh Maurice Walsh is the author of Bitter freedom: Ireland in a revolutionary world 1918–1923 (Faber & Faber, 2015). […]

IRISH LONDON: A CULTURAL HISTORY 1850–1916

RICHARD KIRKLAND Bloomsbury £85 ISBN 9781350133181 Reviewed by Angus Mitchell Angus Mitchell is a historian and lives in Limerick. In his contribution to Glór Ulladh 1893–1943, the Belfast singer and […]

VICEREINES OF IRELAND: PORTRAITS OF FORGOTTEN WOMEN

MYLES CAMPBELL (ed.) Irish Academic Press €45 ISSN 9781788551355 Reviewed by Sylvie Kleinman Sylvie Kleinman is Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of History, Trinity College, Dublin. When Mary Robinson […]