social history

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 …

By Myles Dungan ‘Mayo people do not steal, and if they shot a stranger, it would only be by mistake for a …

By Kevin C. Kearns Published by Gill Books, 2023 Reviewer: Sylvie Kleinman ISBN: 9780717195619 Kevin C. Kearns has written a multi-facetted social …

By John Dorney Nicholas ‘Nixie’ Boran was born in coal mining area of rural County Kilkenny in the early twentieth century, and …

By Timothy Murtagh Henrietta Street has many claims to fame. Some historians have pointed to it as one of the earliest examples of …

By Niamh Dillon Published by New York University Press, 2022 Reviewer: Sean William Gannon Niamh Dillon’s new book Homeward Bound compares …

By John Dorney An exhibition in Stratford College, part of a project by their Transition year students, aided by as Saul Woulfson …