James Kelly (Four Courts Press) ISBN 1851826114 In editing sixty-two broadside gallows speeches from eighteenth century Ireland James Kelly finds himself in the company of another prolific commentator on eighteenth-century […]
Read More →Nicholas Canny (Oxford University Press, £55) ISBN 0198200919 In 1976 Nicholas Canny set the agenda for a generation of scholars of early modern Ireland with The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland: […]
Read More →Last April’s conference of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland at the University of Southampton, whose theme was chosen to reflect the centenary of Queen Victoria’s death, opened […]
Read More →The idea of holding a world congress of the ‘Irish race’ originated with the Irish Republican Association of South Africa in February 1921. Preliminary work was undertaken by Art O’Brien […]
Read More →In 1900 the council of the Royal Dublin Society proposed that a monument be raised to Queen Victoria within the precincts of the its grounds at Leinster House. At a […]
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