Nick Maxwell GUY BEINER Oxford University Press £31.50 ISBN 9780198749356 Reviewed by Angus Mitchell How do we orientate the divide between what is publicly acknowledged and what is privately remembered? For anyone who has followed the debate over commemorative politics and legacy problems in Ireland, there is now a shelf-full of books published since the late 1990s … Read more
TIMOTHY D. WATT Boydell Press, Irish Historical Monographs £65 ISBN 9781783273126 Reviewed by Myrtle Hill Myrtle Hill is Visiting Research Fellow at Queen’s University, Belfast. As with former publications in the series, this latest monograph sheds light on a previously under-researched aspect of life in Ireland, focusing on our history from a perspective that highlights … Read more
BY TONY CANAVAN Don’t mention the war, massacres or mutiny The British government is having problems with its advisory board on commemorating the First World War. Some members of the board believe that the centenary commemorations should be extended to mark other centenaries. The group, set up under David Cameron, advised on four years … Read more
1819 Ellen Hanley (15), the celebrated ‘Colleen Bawn’, was murdered on the River Shannon by Stephen Sullivan, servant of her alleged husband, John Scanlan.
1819 Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, explorer who confirmed the deaths of Sir John Franklin and his crew of 129 in an attempt to chart and navigate the Northwest Passage (1845), born in Seatown Terrace, Dundalk.