Mannix and De Valera had swapped places; De Valera in his early years wanted to be a bishop, Mannix now aspired to the role of statesman Continue reading
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An Irish Hard Border revisited
In many places, the border lines made little sense and did not reflect local economic and social geographies Continue reading
John Redmond: one of Irish history’s great losers
Meleady makes very clear that he does not accept much of the previous scholarly and political consensus concerning Redmond’s alleged personal and political shortcomings. Continue reading
Remembering the Troubles
These oral histories detail the ordinary activist – those from working-class backgrounds who, in contrast to the revolutionary élite, rarely recorded their thoughts in letters, diaries or memoirs. Continue reading
St Patrick Visitor Centre, Downpatrick
… a site for community engagement across the Catholic-Protestant divide. Continue reading
World Première of play on Oliver St. John Gogarty
The Life and High Times of Oliver St John Gogarty – the Real Buck Mulligan Continue reading
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
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