Women and the Achill Mission Colony
Protestant women missionaries on Achill island in the 19th century. By Patricia Byrne. (A version of this article was presented at the Heinrich …
Opinion: ‘Cromwell was Framed’
Tom Reilly argues that Oliver Cromwell did not, as folk memory has it, slaughter the inhabitants of Drogheda in 1649. (See also …
Book Review: ‘The Republic – The Fight for Irish Independence.’
By: Charles Townshend Publisher: Allen Lane, 2013 Price: €27.99 Reviewer: Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc Forty years ago Charles Townshend’s first book …
Ellen MacCarthy – The Survivor
John Dorney looks at the life of Ellen MacCarthy, who survived the Tudor conquest of Gaelic Ireland. And her marriage. It is …