Nick Maxwell SEÁN Ó HOIREABHÁRD Liverpool University Press £125 ISBN 9781835538449 REVIEWED BY Simon Egan Simon Egan is a lecturer in Medieval Irish History at Queen’s University Belfast. It is no exaggeration to say that a significant body of work has been completed on the origins, course and impact of the English invasions of Ireland in the … Read more
MÁRTÍN MAC CON IOMAIRE and DOROTHY CASHMAN (eds) Royal Irish Academy in collaboration with EUt+ Academic Press €45 ISBN 9781900454827 REVIEWED BY Claire Connolly In 1969 two French food critics penned a guidebook—the Guide Juillard de l’Irlande—in which they shared some good news. Things were getting better in Irish kitchens. The sting in the tail, … Read more
By Daragh Fitzgerald March’s International Women’s Day, marked on the date in 1917 when women workers in Petrograd protested for peace and bread and thus began the Russian Revolution, made Bold, brilliant, and bad: Irish women from history a prescient and inspiring read. Bringing forgotten women from Irish history to the fore, this book is … Read more
National Print Museum, Haddington Road, Dublin D04 E0C9 https://www.nationalprintmuseum.ie By Donal Fallon Industrial and craft museums are rare in Ireland, which means that stepping into the National Print Museum is an immediately different experience from most spaces explored in this column. On a busy floor, laid out like a traditional print-shop, various machines are doing … Read more
TG4, 22 & 29 January 2025 By Sylvie Kleinman This two-part documentary hypes up the ‘drama’ of Éamon de Valera versus the ‘radical revolutionary women activists’ who had supported him during his so-called wilderness years (c. 1924–6) but were then betrayed when he entered the Free State legislature and rose to become the iconic embodiment … Read more