Book Review: A Broad Church: The Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland, 1980-1989 Volume 2
By Gearóid Ó Faoleán Published by Merrion Press Reviewed by Dr Robert Collins In volume one of the above title, author Gearóid …
Book Review: A Broad Church: the Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland
By Gearóid Ó Faoleán Published by: Irish Academic Press, 2019 Reviewer: Gerard Madden Gearóid Ó Faoleán’s new book A Broad Church: the …
Book Review: Soldiering Against Subversion
Soldiering Against Subversion: The Irish Defence Forces and Internal Security during the Troubles, 1969-1998 By Dan Harvey Published by Merrion Press (2018) …
‘To extinguish their sinister traditions and customs’ – the historic bans on the legal use of the Irish and Welsh languages
By Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc. Constitutionally both Wales and Northern Ireland are considered part of the integral and sovereign territory of the …
Book Review: The Impact of the Troubles on the Republic of Ireland 1968-1979, A Boiling Volcano?
By Brian Hanley Published by Manchester University Press, 2018 Reviewer: John Dorney All of us who grew up in the south of …
Book Review: Bombs, Bullets and the Border: Policing Ireland’s Frontier, Irish Security Policy 1969-1978
By Patrick Mulroe Published by Irish Academic Press, 2017. Reviewer: Gerard Madden. Since June 2016, Brexit has dominated public discourse in both …
Dreaming of an “Irish Tet Offensive”: Irish Republican prisoners and the origins of the Peace Process
By Dieter Reinisch January 30 2018 marked the 50th anniversary of the launch of the “Tet offensive” in 1968 by North Vietnam …