Nick Maxwell Given their activism in the revolutionary period, now widely acknowledged by historians, why were Irish women and their organizations on the margins of deliberations on the Treaty? Why were Irish women under 30 denied the vote in the June 1922 general election? To what extent were they the victims of gendered violence (by either side) … Read more
In this centenary year of its publication, the History Ireland Hedge School considers James Joyce’s Ulysses, set in Dublin on a single day, 16 June 1904. What was the history of the book? What is the history in the book? Join Tommy Graham in discussion with Sylvie Kleinman, Felix Larkin, Katherine McSharry and Dan Mulhall. The Hedge School series of podcasts is … Read more
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr At 3.40am on 28 June 1922, the anti-Treaty IRA in the Four Courts were given an ultimatum to surrender by troops of the Provisional Government (increasingly referred to as the ‘National Army’) under the command of Michael Collins. When they refused, firing commenced twenty minutes later—the Irish Civil War had … Read more
ANNE BORAN Geography Publications €35 ISBN 9780906602973 Reviewed by John Cunningham John Cunningham lectures in History at NUI Galway. The subject of this biography was a mineworker and union leader in Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny. It is written by his daughter, who brings scholarly insights to the task drawn from a working life as a sociologist, … Read more
MÁIRE COMERFORD (ed. Hillary Dully) Lilliput Press €20 ISBN 9781843518198 Reviewed by Angus Mitchell Angus Mitchell was recently commissioned to write The Casement Memorial Statue for Dún Laoghaire and Rathdown County Council. If this book been published ten years earlier, how might it have influenced the history written during the ‘decade of centenaries’? At the … Read more