Rebellion and Remembrance in Modern Ireland, Laurence M. Geary (ed.). (Four Courts Press, £35.44) ISBN 185182586X Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Union: Ireland in the 1790s, Jim Smyth (ed.). (Cambridge University Press, £35) ISBN 052166109

As the Irish parliament enacts the union a deputation of dissident MPs burst into the study of Robert Emmet, demanding that he go immediately to France in search of armed […]

Jim Connell and The Red Flag

There are two memorials to Jim Connell, one in County Meath where he was born in 1852 and the other a plaque on a house he once occupied in London. […]

The Two Patricks: RTÉ’s Lost Among Wolves & Fanatic Heart

Two recent TV documentaries on Irish revolutionaries, both in RTÉ’s True Lives series, offer a strikingly contrasting view of the lives of two men caught up in the politics of […]

Peter Berry’s ‘Notes’ on subversion in the ‘30s & ‘40s

The recent revelation that Peter Berry, secretary to the Department of Justice, highlighted key sections of a document that were subsequently deleted, a document central to the 1970 Arms Trial, […]

The Casement ‘Black Diaries’ Debate: the story so far

Following the publication, in October 1997, of two versions of diary material relating to Roger Casement’s activities in the Amazon in 1910, there resurfaced one of the longest running controversies […]