ERSKINE CHILDERS EXECUTED

By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr On 27 September 1922, Dáil Éireann passed emergency legislation that allowed for the execution of those captured bearing arms against the Free State. The legislation passed to the National Army powers of punishment for anyone ‘taking part in or aiding and abetting attacks on the National Forces’, having possession of … Read more

DONEGAL: THE IRISH REVOLUTION 1912–1923

PAURIC TRAVERSFour Courts Press€22.45ISBN 9781846829789 Reviewed by John Dorney John Dorney is the editor of ‘The Irish Story’ website. Pauric Travers’s study of Donegal during the years of upheaval from 1912 to 1923 plots a course from a politics dominated before the Great War by the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) and the remaining patrician unionist … Read more

CATHAL BRUGHA: ‘AN INDOMITABLE SPIRIT’

DAITHÍ Ó CORRÁIN and GERARD HANLEY Four Courts Press €22.45 ISBN 9781801510172 Reviewed by Gerard Shannon Gerard Shannon’s Liam Lynch: Irish revolutionary is due for release from Merrion Press in March 2023.   While much has been done recently to illuminate the lives of unknown activists (especially women) of the early twentieth-century Irish revolutionary period, the … Read more

CANADIAN SPY STORY: IRISH REVOLUTIONARIES AND THE SECRET POLICE

DAVID A. WILSON McGill–Queen’s University Press €31.50 ISBN 9780228011170 Reviewed by Dean Jobb Dean Jobb is the author of The case of the murderous Dr Cream: the hunt for a Victorian era serial killer (Algonquin Books) and teaches non-fiction writing at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Cornelius O’Sullivan was welcomed into … Read more