Book Review: The Cork International Exhibition 1902 1903 – A Snapshot of Edwardian Cork
By Daniel Breen & Tom Spalding, Irish Academic Press, 2014. Reviewer: Patricia Curtin-Kelly I suspect that there are few people in Ireland, …
Daniel O’Connell and the Young Irelanders
Irish nationalist disunity and the rise of physical force nationalism, 1842-1846, by Eoin O’Driscoll On the 11 July 1846 Daniel O’Connell presented …
‘An Abundance of First Class Recruits’, The GAA and the Irish Volunteers 1913-15
Richard McElligott on the Gaelic Athletic Association and the founding of the Irish Volunteers. The recent centenary of the formation of …
Book Review: ‘War in the Shadows: The Irish-American Fenians who bombed Victorian Britain’
Title: War In The Shadows: The Irish-Americans Who Bombed Victorian Britain Author: Shane Kenna ISBN: 978-1-90892-802-3 Price: €24.95 (Cheaper from the publisher’s …
First Daffodil Day organised by Irish feminists, April 100 years ago
Conor Mulvagh on a little known piece of Dublin history: the first daffodil day, which was for women’s suffrage rather than (as …
Did Captain Rock spring from the Hedge Schools? – Popular education and militant politics in 1820s Ireland
Maeve Casserly looks at the links between the ‘hedge schools’ and the rebellion of ‘Captain Rock’ in the 1820s. Between 1821 …
Opinion: Remembrance and Reconciliation: Heroes in the Irish War of Independence
Donald Masterson on healing the wounds of the Irish independence struggle. As Ireland enters the first years of its decade long …