“Oh what a transition it was to be changed from the state of a slave to that of a free man!” Frederick Douglass’s Journey from Slavery to Limerick
By Liam Hogan The negro enters upon slavery as soon as he is born, nay, he may have been …
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, …
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, …
Film Review: Jimmy’s Hall
Film: Jimmy’s Hall. Production Company: Sixteen Films and Element Productions. Director: Ken Loach Release date: 30th May 2014. Reviewer: Cathal Brennan Jimmy’s …
‘Solid Men’ – The Irish in New York Politics, 1880-1920
How the Irish conquered political power in New York city. By Shay Dunphy. According to Lawrence McCaffrey, an authority on the Irish …
‘Waterford Parted from the Sea’ – The Irish in Newfoundland
Shay Dunphy explores the historical and cultural links between south-east Ireland and Newfoundland in Canada. The first Europeans arrived on Newfoundland’s shores as early as …
Biographical history of the American Irish in Chicago (1897)
The Chicago History Online Library has a wonderful post on The Biographical history of the American Irish in Chicago. It is a …