Nick Maxwell 1921 The Kerry IRA ambushed a detachment of Black and Tans and RIC at Castlemaine, Co. Kerry, killing three, including an RIC district inspector. The IRA lost one Volunteer. 1984 US President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, arrived on a four-day official visit to the Republic of Ireland. 1968 Helen Keller (87), deaf-blind American political … Read more
Ihe landing of arms at Larne on 30 March 1914 prompted the Irish Volunteers to purchase and bring ashore their own arms shipment. The O’Rahilly directed Darrell Figgis and Erskine Childers to a firm in Hamburg, where they purchased 1,500 rifles and 45,000 rounds of ammunition. Historian Alice Stopford Green was responsible for raising most … Read more
BARRY KEANE Mercier Press £19.99 ISBN 9781781172032 The killing of thirteen Protestants in West Cork in April 1922—the ‘Ballygorman and Dunmanway massacre’—is one of the most disputed incidents in modern Irish history. On 26 April 1922, Michael O’Neill (a local IRA man) was shot dead by Herbert Woods during an arms raid on the farm … Read more
ANGUS MITCHELL O’Brien Press £13.85 ISBN 9781847172648 Amongst the sixteen men executed after the 1916 Rising, the one whose role is most difficult to evaluate is Roger Casement. He comes across as a quixotic figure on the revolutionary margins, his importance and achievements overshadowed by controversy about the authenticity of records of his sex life … Read more
RAY BATESON Irish Graves Publications £17.50 ISBN 9780954227531 If Ray Bateson was lucky enough to be a tenured professor of modern Irish history with an army of research students chomping at the bit for a mention in the credits of one of his books one can only imagine the output he might achieve. He has … Read more