MAGAZINE FORT TO BE RESTORED

By Aengus Ó Snodaigh Like many cooped up at home during the early days of this Covid-19 pandemic, I would venture, when allowed, to the Phoenix Park to stretch my […]

FRANCIS PLACE IN IRELAND

By Helen Pierce Each January, the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) curates a month-long, free-of-charge exhibition based around items from the Vaughan bequest of watercolours by J.M.W. Turner. Drawings by […]

1922, 1972, 2022

In this issue Jack Hepworth (‘The “good Old IRA”—remembering republican veterans after 1969’, pp 40–3) reminds us that in 1972 there were some 32,000 living republican veterans of the War […]

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) […]