For researchers, a new archive of the Troubles in Northern Ireland…. Continue reading
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Electrifying Modernity in the Free State
O’Brien’s new book demonstrates how an industrial project to harness electricity from the Shannon became an opportunity to market it as an epochal monument of modernism in the new Free State. Continue reading
100 years of Irish Women’s Suffrage
A book of essays reissued to mark the centenary of women’s suffrage in Ireland in 2018 full of interest for the general reader. Continue reading
Particularies of Time and Space
It is not just landscape and history and personal objects and events that shape us, but also the more casual and systematic reading we do …. Continue reading
Booklaunch for centenary of Newman College
Michael Francis’s new book, Contesting Catholic Identity: The Foundation of Newman College, Melbourne, 1914-18, will be launched by Dr. Val Noone. Continue reading
Eulogy for Tom Power
A Tribute on the occasion of his funeral by Perry McIntyre Firstly, my heartfelt sympathy to Tom’s extended family and friends. Particular thanks to his wife, Trish, for asking me to say something today about one of Tom’s great passions and achievements – the building of the Memorial to the Great Irish Famine at the … Continue reading
A Foot-soldier’s Misgivings about 1916
What is so refreshing about this narrative of the Easter Rising is its clear-eyed honesty about how ill-prepared the insurgents were to take on the British. Continue reading
Ulysses for Everyone: A Guided Introductory Course on James Joyce’s Masterpiece
A highly popular introductory course on Joyce’s Ulysses to be reprised on 3 Feb. Continue reading
Australia and Ireland in the bitter year of 1917
1917 was a bitter year – probably the most bitter in white Australia’s history – but also one of which Irish Australians can be proud. Continue reading
‘No Irish Need Apply’
In the nineteenth century, job advertisements that specified that Irish should not apply were frequent enough in United States and England for songs, plays and jokes to be made about them. Continue reading