Nick Maxwell CONOR MULVAGH and EMER PURCELL (eds.) Cork University Press € 39 ISBN 978I782054603 Reviewed by Patrick Maume Patrick Maume is a researcher with the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography. Eoin MacNeill is known above all for countermanding the original mobilisation orders for the 1916 Rising. For admirers of Pearse and the Rising leaders … Read more
SÍOBHRA AIKEN Irish Academic Press €29.95 ISBN: 9781788551663 Reviewed by Colum Kenny Colum Kenny is the author of: A bitter winter: the Civil War and its legacy (Eastwood Books, 2022). Forthcoming. In 1967 Irish Civil War veteran George Lennon (1900–1991) was in Rochester, New York, protesting with others against US involvement in the Vietnam War. That … Read more
COLM TÓIBÍN (ed.) Pennsylvania State University Press $45 ISBN 9780271092898 Reviewed by Daniel Mulhall James Joyce’s Ulysses is full of history, has quite a history and is now part of history. There are not many novels that warrant, or attract, the kind of celebratory surge Ulysses has prompted this year. Even at the ripe age … Read more
By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls Lord Robert Ponsonby Tottenham, bishop of Clogher, suffered from a skin condition and was recommended to immerse himself in a bath of red wine each evening. However, unknown to the bishop, after his bath an enterprising servant duly decanted the contents into bottles and sold it in the village. This glorious … Read more
National Gallery of Ireland until 31 October 2022 By Donal Fallon The Shaw Room at the National Gallery of Ireland has a sense of opulence about it, complete with chandeliers and fine polished floors. In a corner, a bust of George Bernard Shaw watches the visitor, fitting in an institution that he thanked for ‘much … Read more