Book Review: One Man’s Terrorist: a Political History of the IRA
By Daniel Finn, Published by: Verso Books, 2019 ISBN 978-1-78663-688-1 Reviewer: Brian Hanley The Irish Republican Army occupies a curious place …
Michael Collins, Northern Ireland and the Northern Offensive, May 1922
By Patrick Concannon As we enter the next few years of commemoration they will be dominated by huge historical events like the …
Book Review: A Broad Church: the Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland
By Gearóid Ó Faoleán Published by: Irish Academic Press, 2019 Reviewer: Gerard Madden Gearóid Ó Faoleán’s new book A Broad Church: the …
Book Review: The Impact of the Troubles on the Republic of Ireland 1968-1979, A Boiling Volcano?
By Brian Hanley Published by Manchester University Press, 2018 Reviewer: John Dorney All of us who grew up in the south of …
Book Review: Bombs, Bullets and the Border: Policing Ireland’s Frontier, Irish Security Policy 1969-1978
By Patrick Mulroe Published by Irish Academic Press, 2017. Reviewer: Gerard Madden. Since June 2016, Brexit has dominated public discourse in both …
Film Review: No Stone Unturned
Directed by Alex Gibney 2017 Reviewer: John Dorney This film, on limited release in Ireland, should be causing mass outrage. And yet …
‘A policy of Passive Resistance’: Sinn Féin and Abstentionism – an historical overview
For over 100 years now, elected Irish Republican politicians have refused to take their seats in the British Parliament. Kerron Ó Luain …