Nick Maxwell EOIN O’DUFFY Reconquista Press €15 ISBN 9781912853076 The Salamanca diaries: Father McCabe and the Spanish Civil War TIM FANNING Irish Academic Press €19.95 ISBN 9781785372773 Reviewed by: John Dorney Irishmen fought on both sides of the Spanish Civil War (1936–9). These two recently released books shed light on the larger Irish intervention, that led by … Read more
1940 Gone with the Wind, an epic historical romance based on Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 bestseller, starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, won ten awards, including best picture, at the 12th Academy Awards ceremony.
HELENA SHEEHAN Monthly Review Press €25 ISBN 9781583677278 Reviewed by:Anthony Coughlan Anthony Coughlan is Associate Professor Emeritus of Social Policy, Trinity College, Dublin. Professor Helena Sheehan is internationally known as one of Ireland’s leading left-wing intellectuals. Her book Marxism and the philosophy of science: a critical history, first published in 1985, is the classic work … Read more
1971 Sixty-six died and over 200 were injured in a crush on an exit stairway at Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow, the worst British football disaster until the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. 1920 Recruitment began of former British soldiers as reinforcements to the RIC under the command of Major-General H.H. Tudor; later dubbed the ‘Black-and-Tans’, they arrived in … Read more
Mon 7.30pm Lecale & Downe Historical Society, Down County Museum, The Mall, Downpatrick. Mary Ward—microscopist, writer, astronomer, Francis Bailey.