An Ongoing Injustice: State Responses to ‘Historical’ Abuses in Ireland
By Maeve O’Rourke This is an adapted extract from an essay by Maeve O’Rourke in the recently published book REDRESS: Ireland’s …
A Civil War as a sort of side-show? Partisan politics in the Irish Free State and the Eucharistic Congress of 1932
Barry Sheppard on a moment in Irish history when national and religious identity appeared mired in political conflict. In 1932 Dublin was …
Book Review: Nano Nagle: The Life and the Legacy
By Deirdre Raftery, Catriona Delaney and Catherine Nowlan-Roebuck Publihsed by : Irish Academic Press, 2018 Reviewer: Gerard Madden An effusive tribute by …
“The Pope is the enemy of Irish Republicanism and Irish independence” Should we commemorate the Catholic Church’s role in the War of Independence?
By Padraig Og O Ruairc Introduction – Ignoring faith and misrepresenting history? The official state commemoration marking the centenary of the …
The Papal Visit of 1979: Context and Legacy
How the Catholic Church and lay organisations capitalised on the visit of Pope John Paul II. By Barry Sheppard On the 21st …
‘To get up an anti-Fenian society in this country’: Ribbonism and republicanism in Ulster, 1850-1867.
Rival forms of popular Irish nationalism in 19th century Ulster. By Kerron Ó Luain Founded in Dublin and New York on …
‘A Declaration of War on the Irish People’ The Conscription Crisis of 1918
How the attempt to impose conscription on Ireland was defeated in 1918. By John Dorney. In April 1918, the British government of …