Book Review: Migration and the Making of Ireland
By Bryan Fanning Published by UCD Press, 2018 Reviewer: Barry Sheppard. This new work by Bryan Fanning, Professor of Migration and …
The Jacobite-Williamite War – An overview
The War between King James and King William in 1689-91, that decided the fate of Ireland. By John Dorney Every year on …
The Manchester martyrs: From last letters to lasting legends
By Mark Holan On 22 November 1867, Co. Cork native William P. Allen wrote his last letter “this side of the grave” …
Arthur Conan Doyle and the Irish Literary Society
Jane Stanford on Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, and his links with Ireland. The Anglo-Celtic race has always run …
Book Review – Ireland’s Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth
By Mark Williams. Published by Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. 608. €36.99. ISBN 978-0691157313. Reviewer Caroline Hurley I could have done …
Today in Irish History, January 3, 1602, The Battle of Kinsale
The Decisive battle of the Nine Years War. By John Dorney On Christmas Eve 1601 by English reckoning and January 3 …
‘Solely in the earth and its fruits’ – Papal Encyclicals and Irish social policy in the 1930s
Barry Sheppard on how Catholic teaching helped to shape Irish social policy in the 1930s. The 1930s – the era of the …