Book Review: From Partition to Brexit: The Irish Government and Northern Ireland
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3295-6 By Donnacha O Beacháin Published by Manchester University Press (2018) Reviewer: Aaron Ó Maonaigh The spectre of Brexit hangs over …
Book Review: John Redmond: Selected Letters and Memoranda, 1880-1918.
Edited by Dermot Meleady Published by Irish Academic Press, 2018. Reviewer: Diarmuid Bolger John Redmond, the Wexford-born leader of the Irish Parliamentary …
‘To Cost You in Blood’ – Rory O’Connor’s 1916 Rising and Aftermath
The first in a series of articles looking at Rory O’Connor’s role in the Irish revolutionary period. By Gerard Shannon. In most …
Episode at Easter – The 1916 Rising in Louth
In the midst of the recent centenary commemorations many local contributions to the Rising have started to come to light. One such …
Cabra in 1916
John Dorney on the Launch of ‘Our Rising’ Cabra in 1916′ by Brian Hanley and Donal Fallon. November 7th 2015 at Christ …
The Sinn Féin Rebellion? Arthur Griffith’s Easter Week 1916
Gerard Shannon on Arthur Griffith, Sinn Féin and the insurrection of Easter 1916. ‘The Sinn Féin Rebellion’ became a popular, though paradoxical, …
Book review: The Howth Gun-Running and the Kilcoole Gun-Running: Recollections and Documents
The Howth Gun-Running and the Kilcoole Gun-Running: Recollections and Documents Edited by F.X Martin, (Dublin, Merrion Press, 2014). E17.95. Reviewer: Gerard Madden …