Nick Maxwell

IRELAND AND ARGENTINA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: DIASPORA, DIPLOMACY, DICTATORSHIP, CATHOLIC MISSION AND THE FALKLANDS CRISIS

DERMOT KEOGH (with PATRICK KIELY) Cork University Press €39 ISBN 9781782055112 Reviewed by Michael Kennedy Perhaps you can judge a book by its cover? With its dramatic colourful dust-jacket, tasteful blue-and-white Argentinian-themed head and tail bands and its quality finish, Ireland and Argentina in the twentieth century is a prodigious work. By drawing attention to … Read more

BOOKWORM

By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls The man who ruthlessly cross-examined Patrick Kavanagh in his failed 1954 libel action against The Leader newspaper is the same man who established the Arts Council: John A. Costello. In Taoisigh and the arts, journalist, DCU lecturer and current chairman of the council Kevin Rafter offers a thoroughly entertaining and enlightening … Read more

GAA MUSEUM, CROKE PARK

By Donal Fallon In November 2021, at the end of a second difficult year for heritage sites, Fáilte Ireland announced the awarding of funding to ten museums and cultural institutions in the capital. One of those recipients, the GAA Museum, has benefited enormously from this and earlier funding. Significantly altered since Tony Canavan’s visit four … Read more

ARDAL O’HANLON: TOMB RAIDER

BBC1, 9 May 2022; RTÉ1, 16 May 2022 Alleycats TV By Sylvie Kleinman What does it mean to be Irish, and what truth lies beneath our comforting origin tales? Pensive and awed, Ardal O’Hanlon opened this captivating documentary by pacing through a suitably misty Neolithic court tomb, an iconic example of ‘sacred sites’ connecting us … Read more