Do we need another book on the Easter Rising? There can be no harm in a good one. And Fearghal McGarry has written a very good one indeed. What makes […]
Read More →One hundred years ago, on the night of Saturday 13 August 1910, three passengers travelling from New York disembarked from the White Star Line’s steamer Baltic at what was then […]
Read More →Following the outbreak of the Great War in August 1914, the UK government interned ‘all Germans, Hungarians and Austrians of military age’ throughout Britain and Ireland, and 300 civilians were […]
Read More →Whatever one’s point of view, Patrick Pearse has always engendered strong emotions. Shortly after the Easter Rising he became widely revered, some even suggesting that he should be made a saint. In […]
Read More →John Horne (ed.) (Royal Irish Academy, €30/£25) ISBN 9781904890508 Thomas Davis Lectures, RTÉ Radio 1, 10 Nov. 2008–12 Jan. 2009 www.rte.ie/radio1/ourwar The combined authority of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) […]
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