Nick Maxwell MÁRTÍN MAC CON IOMAIRE and DOROTHY CASHMAN (eds) Royal Irish Academy in collaboration with EUt+ Academic Press €45 ISBN 9781900454827 REVIEWED BY Claire Connolly In 1969 two French food critics penned a guidebook—the Guide Juillard de l’Irlande—in which they shared some good news. Things were getting better in Irish kitchens. The sting in the tail, … Read more
By Daragh Fitzgerald March’s International Women’s Day, marked on the date in 1917 when women workers in Petrograd protested for peace and bread and thus began the Russian Revolution, made Bold, brilliant, and bad: Irish women from history a prescient and inspiring read. Bringing forgotten women from Irish history to the fore, this book is … Read more
National Print Museum, Haddington Road, Dublin D04 E0C9 https://www.nationalprintmuseum.ie By Donal Fallon Industrial and craft museums are rare in Ireland, which means that stepping into the National Print Museum is an immediately different experience from most spaces explored in this column. On a busy floor, laid out like a traditional print-shop, various machines are doing … Read more
TG4, 22 & 29 January 2025 By Sylvie Kleinman This two-part documentary hypes up the ‘drama’ of Éamon de Valera versus the ‘radical revolutionary women activists’ who had supported him during his so-called wilderness years (c. 1924–6) but were then betrayed when he entered the Free State legislature and rose to become the iconic embodiment … Read more
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr Oonah Keogh was born in Dublin in 1903 and grew up on Shrewsbury Road, Ballsbridge. Her family placed a high value on education, which led to Oonah’s attending excellent schools both in Ireland and Britain. From a young age she had been very aware of the imposing and male-dominated financial … Read more