The Life and High Times of Oliver St John Gogarty – the Real Buck Mulligan 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
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
Fenians, Freemantle and Freedom
A 10-day cultural festival which will be celebrating the Irish culture and influence on Australia Continue reading
Ireland’s first diplomatic representative to the Commonwealth of Australia
Mannix made the expected speech getting straight up the noses of loyal Australia by calling Kiernan the representative of the whole of Ireland. Continue reading
Synge: Elective Vagrant, and Writer
J.M.Synge and Travel Writing will send its readers back to the work being discussed with renewed interest. Continue reading
The Irish Civil War
It is difficult to write about it – or, indeed, read about it – without anger, Continue reading
Chief Secretary of Ireland’s Office Archives.
The records of the Chief Secretary of Ireland’s Office constitute one of the most valuable collections of original source material for research into Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Continue reading
Index to Trevor McClaughlin’s Famine Girls Archive
a useful resource for anyone interested in this aspect of Irish-Australian history. Continue reading
Linen Hall Library, Belfast
Over the years the Library has become the repository for a vast amount of material relating to the subject and the subsequent Peace Process Continue reading
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