Nick Maxwell

HELENE O’KEEFFE, JOHN CROWLEY, DONAL O’DRISCEOIL, JOHN BORGONOVO and MIKE MURPHY (eds) Cork University Press €69 ISBN 9781782055921 REVIEWED BY Charles Lysaght Nobody in nationalist Ireland felt proud of the Civil War that followed hard upon independence in 1922. Unlike the War of Independence, it produced no heroes. Neither side could be happy with its … Read more

By Daragh Fitzgerald As we approach the 100th anniversary of the Boundary Commission and the end of the Decade of Centenaries, it is worth reflecting on Laura McAtackney’s insight that commemoration is the ‘deliberate act of remembering the past, at a particular time and place, as a symbolic act in the present’. Shifting relations with … Read more

Ulster Museum, Belfast By Donal Fallon Beyond being physical spaces, our museums and galleries also exist in the digital realm. Few have embraced the internet and its possibilities as well as the Ulster Museum. A visitor to their website will encounter the oral history project Voices of ’74, interviewing those who lived through that turbulent … Read more

RTÉ2, 1 November 2024 and RTÉ Player By Sylvie Kleinman ‘Let’s make a documentary about it’: the popular podcaster and open discusser of his autism Blindboy Boatclub has co-written and presents The Land of Slaves and Scholars. Despite having no god or religion, he is fascinated by the Early Christian Irish writing tradition—literally, as we … Read more