Is there bias in dictionary compiling? Ultimately, yes. Continue reading
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Reflecting on The Banshees of Inisherin
I read The Banshees of Inisherin as an allegory of this vicious civil conflict, told in a loose but recognisable metaphor of the breakdown of a once close friendship. Continue reading
British Espionage after The Rising
The Intelligence authorities found it difficult to accept that parents whose eldest adult child had been executed for his role in the Easter Rising, and who moreover had two more sons Volunteers (initially sentenced to death but commuted to 10-year sentences), were not actively involved in the Rising. Continue reading
The Irish Civil War
One hundred years ago, former comrades in the Irish fight for freedom turned their guns on each other. Continue reading
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Socialist Countess
Meg McNena’s new play about Constance Markievicz constitutes an epic story of women’s engagement in politics. Continue reading
Soldier of the Irish Republic
‘The Facts are that the Irish Republic exists.’ Continue reading
No Time for Love
‘Murder wasn’t enough. These guardians of one version of independence would ration even human sympathy.’ Continue reading
Portrait of a patriot – Thomas Kent
A Book Review by Renée Huish Meda Ryan: 16 Lives: Thomas Kent, O’Brien Press, Dublin, 2016. ISBN: 9781847172655 RRP: €14.99 paperback; €10.99 ePub. In the wake of The Easter Rising in Ireland in April 1916 fourteen men were executed by firing squad at Kilmainham gaol in Dublin. Thomas Kent was executed in Cork. All the firing squad executions … Continue reading
The Easter Rising – another context?
Did the leaders of the Rising fully expect civilians, including children, to die for the cause? Continue reading
Reflections On The Significance Of Easter Week 1916 (Part One)
it was a terrible beauty because of the fundamental transformation of the legend of Ireland and her people which it initiated and the transition to a new Ireland which it inaugurated – for Ireland was indeed to be ‘changed, changed utterly’. Continue reading
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