Book Review: Me Father Was a Hero and Me Mother is a Saint
Me Father was a Hero and Me Mother is a Saint by Eamonn Sheridan Reviewer: Rhona McCord For anyone interested in …
Book review: Kildare Barracks
Kildare Barracks: From the Royal Field Artillery to the Irish Artillery Corps By Mark McLoughlin Published by Merrion, Sallins, 2014 ISBN: 9781908928474 …
Book Review: El Proyecto MacNamara
El Proyecto MacNamara, The Maverick Irish Priest and the Race to Seize California 1844-1846 By John Fox Published by Irish Academic Press, …
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 …
Book Review: Witches, Spies and Stockholm Syndrome – Life in Medieval Ireland
By Finbar Dwyer Published by New Island Press, 2013 Reviewer: John Dorney Medieval Ireland is a world that is lost to …
Evasive Manoeuvres: An Examination of Florence O’Donoghue’s Account of the Death of Michael Collins
What really happened on the day Michael Collins was shot? Daniel Murray looks at Florence O’Donoghue’s version. An Irregular Meeting In February …