Nick Maxwell Robert Savage, Seán Lemass (UCD Press, €17 pb, 128pp, ISBN 9781906359874). The Lensman, The 1980s: Ireland in pictures (O’Brien Press, €14.99 pb, 176pp, ISBN 9781847173218). Orla and Terry Kelly with Michael Lenihan, Cork in the 1960s (Mercier Press, €29.99 hb, 240pp, ISBN 9781781172490). Paul Duffy, Galway City: snapshots through time (Currach Press, €19.99 pb, 128pp, … Read more
An Post’s museum is located in the historic General Post Office on O’Connell Street, which itself is due to be the centre of much attention next year, the centenary of the 1916 Rising. The chosen themes of the museum reflect its role as the headquarters of the postal service in Ireland and also as the … Read more
Charles J. Haughey did not come cheap. Neither did this much-hyped three-part mini-series on the life, or excerpts thereof, of the notorious former taoiseach, which apparently cost €4 million to produce. Yet the expensive production costs of Charlie seem to have been lost as it made its way to the small screen. So too, alas, … Read more
The split centred around a bitter dispute between two men, Judge Daniel Cohalan, leader of the Irish-American nationalist organisation Friends of Irish Freedom (FOIF), and Éamon de Valera, then leading Sinn Féin efforts in the United States to win diplomatic and financial support for Ireland’s independence struggle. This split mirrored the less-publicised break between the … Read more
In explaining the background to the development of Cohalan’s nationalism, his work on behalf of Irish independence should be noted. Throughout his life, Cohalan remained a staunch supporter of the Irish nationalist cause. Cohalan’s grandfather and father left Cork at the height of the Famine in 1847 and, like the descendants of many Irish emigrants … Read more