Cora Hughes: An Irish Pasionaria
By Caroline Crowley To those of us reared in poverty it is not so difficult to take up the cause of emancipation …
Undermining democracy? The IRB and the 1918 election
By John O’Beirne Ranelagh. An adapted extract from his new book ‘The Irish Republican Brotherhood 1914-1924’. Without the IRB, there would not …
Shunned. Ostracised. Excommunicated … Boycotted. The tribulations of Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott
By Myles Dungan ‘Mayo people do not steal, and if they shot a stranger, it would only be by mistake for a …
Book Review: Shifting Sentiment: Press Opinion in Ireland’s Revolutionary Decade 1914-23”
By Dermot Meleady Published by Wordwell Press, 2023 Reviewer: Eoin O’Driscoll ISBN: 9781913934347 From a contemporary perspective, living in the Ireland which …
The Irish Volunteers of the Eighteenth Century: Successfully Importing the Gun into Irish politics.
By Ruairi Nolan The Volunteers of the eighteenth century were a group which embodied a rising Irish nationalism which predated that which …
Book Review: A Year of Glory and Gold 1932- Ireland’s Jazz Age
By Kevin C. Kearns Published by Gill Books, 2023 Reviewer: Sylvie Kleinman ISBN: 9780717195619 Kevin C. Kearns has written a multi-facetted social …
Book Review: The Irish Defence Forces, 1922-2022
By Eoin Kinsella, Published by: Four Courts Press, (2023), 360 pp. ISBN: 9781801510363 Reviewer: Jack Kavanagh Eoin Kinsella’s study of the …