A background history of Ireland’s diplomatic relations with Israel and Palestine. Continue reading
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Secrets of the Daniel O’Connell Monument
Unveiled for the first time on this day, August 15, 1882, the monument was designed and sculpted by John Henry Foley and finished up by his assistant, Thomas Brock. It is often believed to be Foley’s greatest work. Continue reading
Thomas Meagher, Constitutionalist Father of a Revolutionary
It says something about our collective love of celebrity, chaos and flashy headlines that the subtitle of this book is the ‘Forgotten father, of Thomas Francis Meagher’…There is no doubt however, that the life and times of the father are a history worth telling… Continue reading
Antonia Fraser on Emancipation
Antonia Fraser manages to make an engrossing story about what many might regard as a dry, academic topic: the granting of Catholic Emancipation in 1829. Continue reading
Seán O’Faoláin: Literature, Inheritance and the 1930s,
..his study covers what could arguably be the most significant and influential period of O’Faoláin’s writing and fledgling political and journalistic life. Continue reading
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