THE LETTERS AND CHARTERS OF HENRY II, KING OF ENGLAND 1154–1189, VOLS 1–6

NICHOLAS VINCENT (ed.) Oxford University Press £95 per hardback volume ISBN 9780198738213 Reviewed by Jesse Harrington This new series provides a complete edition of the letters and charters of Henry […]

BOOKWORM

By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls We have mentioned here before the new literary genre of ‘biography of a year’. Now the Royal Irish Academy has got in on the act with […]

IRELAND ON THE BOX

National Photographic Archive, Meeting House Square, Temple Bar https://www.nli.ie/en/national-photographic-archive.aspx By Tony Canavan Ireland on the Box, celebrating six decades of television in Ireland, is a collaboration between RTÉ and the […]

VIOLET GIBSON—THE IRISH WOMAN WHO SHOT MUSSOLINI

Ned Kelly Pictures TG4, 22 Sept. 2021, 8 Jan. 2022 By Donal Fallon In March of last year it was reported that Dublin City Council’s Commemorations Committee had agreed to […]

MÁIRÍN CREGAN’S HUNGER STRIKE

By Fiona Brennan The reappraisal of women’s participation in, and contribution to, the revolutionary period is one of the more enduring legacies of the ‘decade of centenaries’ commemorative programme. In […]