Nick Maxwell On 22 August 1922, Michael Collins was killed at Béal na Bláth, Co. Cork. But what if he had survived? Would he have become a military dictator? (Was he one already?) Would he have been more or less ruthless than his successors in prosecuting the Civil War? Would he have torn up the Treaty and … Read more
It is nearly 40 years since Margaret Ward’s pioneering Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism, 1880-1980 (1983) first appeared. How has women’s history, and history written by women, fared in the meantime, particularly in this ‘decade of centenaries’? Join History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham, in discussion with Síobhra Aiken, Leeann Lane, Sarah-Anne Buckley and Margaret Ward. Recorded at the … Read more
1942Ettie Steinberg (28), who was born in Dublin to Czechoslovakian parents was murdered in Auschwitz along with her husband and young son. She was one of just a few Irish Jews to perish in the Holocaust.
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr The Third Dáil ratified the Constitution (Bunreacht na hÉireann) of the Irish Free State on 18 September 1922. The document was drafted in the Shelbourne Hotel in the ‘Constitution Room’. The committee appointed to draft the Constitution was chaired by Michael Collins, but Darrell Figgis, the vice-chairman, was responsible for … Read more
JOYCE PADBURY Arlen House €25 ISBN 9781851322633 Reviewed by Eamonn O’Flaherty Eamonn O’Flaherty is Associate Professor in the UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland. Joyce Padbury’s biography of Mary Hayden explores the life and career of a woman who broke through a great many barriers to achieve independence, an academic career and … Read more