Book Review: The Adoption Machine: The Dark History of Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes.
By Paul Jude Redmond Published by Irish Academic Press. Reviewer: Rhona McCord I first met Paul Redmond in 2013 at a press …
The Irish Story’s Top Posts of 2015
Happy New Year to all our readers and contributors! In 2015 we had 500,000 views and 290,000 visitors. Our now annual review …
The Irish Story Top Posts of 2013
So another year comes to a close. We’d like to thank all our contributors and readers over the past year. Below is …
Book Review, ‘A Just Society for Ireland?’
Title: A Just Society For Ireland? 1964-1987 Author: Ciara Meehan Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013 Price: £55.00 Reviewer: Rhona McCord Ciara Meehan’s recent …
The Mother and Child Scheme – The role of Church and State.
Rhona McCord takes a fresh look at the clash of ideologies and interests in the Irish state over the Mother and Child …
The History Show Archive: Episodes 1-7
Readers of our facebook page will have been kept abreast of the History Show, which Cathal Brennan and John Dorney of the …
Book Review: ‘What Else Could I Do?’
Infanticide can be a measure of other aspects of society, it can point to attitudes towards illegitimacy, sex, poverty, birth control, women’s rights and protection of infant life … Rattigan has written a very informative book on a part of Irish history, which serves to reveal much about the complex nature of Irish conservatism.