Nick Maxwell [sc_embed_player fileurl=”http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/history2013/20150518-HistoryIrelandShow-045.mp3″] Click the play button to listen To download audio, right click this link and select “Save link as..” @ Mechanics Institute, Galway, 8pm Fri 24 April Brian Hanley, Eamonn McCann, Tom Inglis, Sarah-Anne Buckley.
The May-June issue of History Ireland is out! Complete with an eye-catching front cover relating to Patrick Geoghegan’s exploration of the Irish links with the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Centenaries aren’t the only anniversaries; there are also bi-centenaries, and that of the most important battle of nineteenth-century Europe falls this year. But that’s not … Read more
Seán O’Casey was secretary of the Irish Citizen Army and wrote ‘ICA Notes’ in The Worker and the Irish Worker. While James Connolly attacked the British, O’Casey attacked the Volunteers week after week. He continually argued that the workers of Ireland were not served by the intent of the Volunteers, that the Volunteers were in … Read more
GAVIN M. FOSTER Palgrave Macmillan £60 In this latest addition to the historiography of the Civil War, Gavin Foster essentially offers a reconceptualising of class debates. He sets out to explore the social dimensions of the conflict ‘from fresh angles that highlight the rival social outlooks, interests and conflicts that ruptured nationalist solidarity’ at the … Read more
JAMES CURRY AND CIARÁN WALLACE Dublin City Council/Four Courts Press €19.95 Thomas Fitzpatrick was an artist of the Cultural Revival, although he is seldom cited in that respect. His name is not listed alongside some giants such as Jack B. Yeats, but his graphic skill and his interpretations of an imagined Celtic cultured island mark … Read more