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 …
Book Review: The Cork International Exhibition 1902 1903 – A Snapshot of Edwardian Cork
By Daniel Breen & Tom Spalding, Irish Academic Press, 2014. Reviewer: Patricia Curtin-Kelly I suspect that there are few people in Ireland, …
Did Captain Rock spring from the Hedge Schools? – Popular education and militant politics in 1820s Ireland
Maeve Casserly looks at the links between the ‘hedge schools’ and the rebellion of ‘Captain Rock’ in the 1820s. Between 1821 …
Frank Aiken: Nationalist and Internationalist
Almost uniquely amongst the leading figures of the Irish revolutionary period, 1916-1923, Frank Aiken (1898-1983) does not have a biography devoted to …
The perfect symbol – Italia 90 and Irish Identity
A personal view on how international football and Irish identity collided in the 1990 World Cup. By John Dorney. The Republic of …
‘Slaves or Freemen?’ Sean McDermott, the IRB and the psychology of the Easter Rising
Sean McDermott has been described as, “the mind behind the Easter Rising”. He wrote that he was “never so happy” as when …