“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: Was Cromwell Framed?
Cromwell was Framed, Ireland 1649 By Tom Reilly Published by Chronos Books, London, 2014 Reviewer: John Dorney Oliver Cromwell’s name is …
Understated Insurgency: The Carlow Brigade in the War of Independence, 1917-1921
By Daniel Murray. See also Bushwhacked, the ambush of the Carlow column. When Pádraig Kane sat down to give his Statement …
Book Review: Mr Parnell’s Rottweiler
Mr Parnell’s Rottweiler – Censorship and the United Ireland Newspaper, 1881-1891 by Myles Dungan Irish Academic Press, 2014 Reviewer: Barry Kennerk In …
Book Review: Me Father Was a Hero and Me Mother is a Saint
Me Father was a Hero and Me Mother is a Saint by Eamonn Sheridan Reviewer: Rhona McCord For anyone interested in …
John Jinks and the collapse of the Fifth Dail
Cathal Brennan on a moment in 1927 in which Irish history failed to turn. On the 16th of August 1927, the opposition …
Book Review: Nation/Nazione, Irish Nationalism and the Italian Risorgimento
By Colin Barr; Michele Finelli; Anne O’Connor, eds. (Dublin: UCD Press, 2014). Reviewer: Aidan Beatty We are called the Italy of …