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 …
Book Review: The Life and Times of Mary Ann McCracken, 1770–1866 ~ A Belfast Panorama
By Mary McNeill Published by Irish Academic Press, Newbridge, 2019 ISBN: 9781788550826 Reviewer: Gordon O’Sullivan “Is it not the duty …
Book Review: The Shaping of Modern Ireland.
Edited by Eugenio Biagini and Daniel Mulhall Published by Irish Academic Press, 2016 Reviewer: Rhona McCord The Shaping of Modern Ireland is …
‘To Cost You in Blood’ – Rory O’Connor’s 1916 Rising and Aftermath
The first in a series of articles looking at Rory O’Connor’s role in the Irish revolutionary period. By Gerard Shannon. In most …
Opinion: What kind of future did the Men of 1916 dream of?
By John Dorney For 100 years now in Ireland, when we are facing some national crossroads, someone will inevitably invoke the ‘men …
Book Review: 1916: Ireland’s Revolutionary Tradition
1916: Ireland’s Revolutionary Tradition By Kieran Allen. London: Pluto Press, 20 January, 2016 Reviewer: Aidan Beatty. Kieran Allen’s new study of the Irish …
The Sinn Féin Rebellion? Arthur Griffith’s Easter Week 1916
Gerard Shannon on Arthur Griffith, Sinn Féin and the insurrection of Easter 1916. ‘The Sinn Féin Rebellion’ became a popular, though paradoxical, …