Book Review: Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier: The Prose Writings of Eoin Ua Cathail
Edited by Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna, Published by: Denton TX: University of North Texas Press, 2021) Reviewer: Aidan Beatty John Cahill/Eoin Ua …
Frederick Engels and Ireland
Aidan Beatty on Frederick Engels’ evolving views on Ireland and the Irish in the 19th century. Give me two hundred thousand …
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 …
The Irish Story Top Posts of 2013
So another year comes to a close. We’d like to thank all our contributors and readers over the past year. Below is …
The History Show Archive Part II: Episodes 8-16
This is the second part of our archive of Near FM’s History Show, presented by Cathal Brennan and John Dorney. The first …
Body and Soul of the nation – Early 20th century Irish nationalism and Zionism
In an earlier article Aidan Beatty looked at the shared history of Irish nationalism and Zionism, and how activists in both movements …
‘A long and oddly intertwined history’ – Irish nationalism and Zionism
Aidan Beatty explores the historical links between Irish and Jewish nationalism In Easter 1903, the city of Kishinev, in what is now Moldova, …