Nick Maxwell By Andrew Totten Around AD 590, somewhere along the east coast of Ireland, St Columbanus was waiting to go into exile. On reaching Burgundy—one of the kingdoms of Merovingian Gaul—he would found a series of monasteries to which people would flock. Eventually falling foul of the king, he travelled through France and Germany to Switzerland, … Read more
By Sergio Fernández Redondo Íth mac Bregoin athchonnairc hÉrinn ar tús, fescor gaimrid, a mulluch Túir Bregoin; dáig is amlaid is ferr radharc duine, glan-fescor gaimrith. (‘It was Íth, Breogán’s son, who first saw Ireland from the top of Breogán’s tower on a winter afternoon; as this is the best way to see it, on … Read more
JOHN CUNNINGHAM, BRIAN HANLEY, MARY MULDOWNEY and SONJA TIERNAN (eds) Irish Labour History Society €35 ISSN 03321169 Reviewed by Conor McCabe Dr Conor McCabe is a researcher at DCU School of Law and Government. For the past 50 years the Irish Labour History Society (ILHS) has produced Saothar, an annual journal that reflects on the … Read more
EOIN O’MALLEY Eriu €23.99 ISBN 9871804442685 REVIEWED BY Brian Girvin Brian Girvin is Honorary Professor of Contemporary Politics at the University of Glasgow. Charles J. Haughey and Garret FitzGerald dominated Irish politics for nearly a decade during what was an especially turbulent time. Ireland was the ‘sick man’ of Europe for much of this period, … Read more
DAVID MCCULLAGH Gill Books €26.99 ISBN 9781804581469 REVIEWED BY John Gibney John Gibney is Assistant Editor with the Royal Irish Academy’s Documents on Irish Foreign Policy programme. On 19 December 1921, during the acrimonious Dáil debates that followed the signing of the ‘articles of agreement’ that became the Anglo-Irish Treaty, Michael Collins gave the best-known … Read more