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The Norman Invasion of Ireland, Richard Roche, (Anvil Books, £9.95).

At the start of every academic year the university lecturer is faced with the task of recommending certain books to the new, eager crop of students taking his or her […]

A Century of Northern Life: The Irish News and 100 Years of Ulster History 1890s-1990s, Eamon Phoenix (ed.), (Ulster Historical Foundation, £10 .95). A History of The Belfast Telegraph, Malcolm Brodie, (Blackstaff Press, £14.99).

Both these books were commissioned and, like the newspapers they serve to commemorate, they are different in orientation. The one dedicated to The Irish News is a collection of twenty-six […]

The politics of Irish education, 1920-65, Sean Farren, (Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast, £16.50)

This is a thought provoking study. Sean Farren provides us not only with an insight into developments in the schools in both Northern Ireland and the Free State/Republic of Ireland, […]

Enduring the most: the life of Terence MacSwiney, Francis J. Costello. (Brandon, £9.99)

The name of Terence MacSwiney (1879-1920), the Lord Mayor of Cork who died on hunger strike in Brixton prison during the War of Independence, is familiar not only in Ireland […]

Graziers, Land Reform and Political Conflict in Ireland David S. Jones (Catholic University of America Press, £40.50)

In 1978 David Seth Jones completed his PhD, ‘Agrarian capitalism and rural social development in Ireland’, at Queen’s University, Belfast. Since then every serious scholar of modern Ireland has been […]

September 11

1968 Denis McCullough (85), co-founder of the Dungannon Clubs (1905) with Bulmer Hobson and director of the IRB in Ulster at the time of the Easter Rising, died.
1954 Robert Smyllie, influential editor of the Irish Times, died.
1922 The Local Government Act (NI) abolished PR for local elections and required a declaration of allegiance from persons elected to or working for local authorities.
1910 Robert Loraine, British actor and Boer War veteran, in his Henry Farman biplane became the first man to fly across the Irish Sea.
1741 Arthur Young, English agricultural theorist and traveller, and author of the acclaimed A Tour of Ireland (1780), born.
1922 The Local Government Act (NI) abolished PR, introduced by Westminster three years earlier as a ‘minority safeguard’, for local elections and required a declaration of allegiance from persons elected to or working for local authorities.
1954 Robert ‘Bertie’ Smylie (61), editor of the Irish Times since 1934, who transformed the paper from an Ascendancy viewpoint to one with a non-partisan profile, died.

The Norman Invasion of Ireland, Richard Roche, (Anvil Books, £9.95).

A Century of Northern Life: The Irish News and 100 Years of Ulster History 1890s-1990s, Eamon Phoenix (ed.), (Ulster Historical Foundation, £10 .95). A History of The Belfast Telegraph, Malcolm Brodie, (Blackstaff Press, £14.99).

The politics of Irish education, 1920-65, Sean Farren, (Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast, £16.50)

Enduring the most: the life of Terence MacSwiney, Francis J. Costello. (Brandon, £9.99)

Graziers, Land Reform and Political Conflict in Ireland David S. Jones (Catholic University of America Press, £40.50)

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