Nick Maxwell 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
TG4, 22 June 2022 First broadcast by BBC Northern Ireland, 26 July 2020 Made for BBC Gaeilge by Macha Media By Sylvie Kleinman In August 1937, Dr Ludwig Mühlhausen, professor of Celtic studies at Berlin University, arrived in Teileann, a remote Gaeltacht village on the Donegal coast. For six weeks, he improved his Irish, interacted … Read more