Nick Maxwell This year marks the golden jubilee for the County Donegal Historical Society (Cumann Seanchais Dhún Na nGall). Founded in 1960 by the late Chris McDonagh from Ballymote, County Roscommon, the society is now one of the largest in the country with over 870 members. The society publishes the Donegal Annual and throughout the year organises … Read more
Ireland and the Palestine question 1948–2004 Rory Miller (Irish Academic Press) €45 hardback ISBN 07165 28142 €25 paperback ISBN 07165 33499Rory Miller begins his story not in 1948 but in 1937, when Eamonn de Valera told the League of Nations that the Palestine question should not be solved by partition, ‘the cruelest wrong that could … Read more
‘Women of ‘98’ is the theme of this year’s Byrne-Perry Summer School. Now in its second year the school, directed by Dáire Keogh and under the efficient and capable auspices of chairman Walter Forde and the local committee, should provide invigorating and stimulating debate. It runs from Friday 28 June to Sunday 30 June. Enquiries: … Read more
An exhibition on the history of the Irish in New York, due to open in March 1996 at the Museum of the City of New York, has been dogged by controversy before it has even opened. The row was sparked last year when a respected Irish-American scholar Marion Casey was replaced as guest curator. But … Read more
Radical politics in modern Ireland: the Irish Socialist Republican Party, 1896–1904 David Lynch (Irish Academic Press, €39.50) ISBN 0716533561Written by a member of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP), this book belongs to a sub-genre of labour history that sees history-writing as instrumental and is at pains to draw lessons regarding present-day socialist politics and … Read more