Book Review: Mary J. Murphy, Achill Painters – An Island History
By Mary J. Murphy Publisher: Galway: Knockma Publishing, 2020. Reviewer: Patricia Byrne The lure of Achill On 30 October 1918 a young …
Feed the School Children – Paul Strzelecki: A Forgotten Polish Hero of the Great Irish Famine
Review of an Exhibition at the Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street, Dublin. By Patricia Byrne. At the height of the Great Famine, …
Book Review: The Preacher and the Prelate: The Achill Mission Colony and the Battle for Souls in Famine Ireland
By Patricia Byrne Published by Merrion Press, Newbridge, 2018 ISBN: 9781785371721 Reviewer: Gordon O’Sullivan “His was a crusade that failed to touch …
‘Like another Luther’: Lady Jane Franklin’s visit to Achill Island recalled
Patricia Byrne on Lady Jane Franklin’s visit to Achill and the controversial Protestant mission there. See also her article on Edward Nangle’s …
The Irish Story’s Top Posts of 2015
Happy New Year to all our readers and contributors! In 2015 we had 500,000 views and 290,000 visitors. Our now annual review …
Weapons of his own Forging: Edward Nangle, Controversial in Life and in Death
Patricia Byrne writes about an intriguing character and the impact of Protestant missionary work on Achill Island in the 19th Century. One …
Achill Island 1912: A Microcosm of Swirling Political Movements
Patricia Byrne looks at Scoil Acla, a summer school on Achill Island in the early 1900s and through it, at the changing …