The names Moody and Edwards are jointly synonymous with the emergence of history as an organised academic discipline in Ireland in the late 1930s. Continue reading
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A Woman Ahead of Her Time
It is easy today to forget the extreme ways that nineteenth-century British society divided along sectarian lines. Continue reading
Fall of the House of Wilde
Oscar was the son of two immense personalities…. Continue reading
Sympathetic biography of ‘the powerful enigmatic Mannix’
Brenda Niall’s biography of Mannix takes a personal, indeed quite an intimate, approach to Mannix. It is certainly not uncritical…. Continue reading
Responsibility in Revolutionary Times: the case of Thomas MacDonagh
‘Dear boy, you’ll be shot’, Edward Martyn’s comment was sadly prophetic as MacDonagh left his last business meeting with colleagues in the Irish Theatre. Continue reading
John Redmond Book Launch
Invitation to the launch of a new book by Dermot Meleady on the leader of the Home Rule Party, John Redmond. Continue reading
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