Nick Maxwell 
Lone crusader: David Thornley and the intellectuals Edward Thornley (Ashfield Press, €21.50) ISBN 9789068798 The premature death of David Thornley in June 1978 deprived Ireland of a significant intellectual best known for his current affairs work on RTÉ’s Seven Days programme and as a Labour TD for Dublin North-West from 1969 to 1977. Unseated … Read more
The men will talk to me: Kerry interviews by Ernie O’Malley Cormac K.H. O’Malley and Tim Horgan (eds) (Mercier Press, €19.99) ISBN 9781856359528 The title of this collection conveys the point that, as a highly respected IRA veteran, Ernie O’Malley had unique access to his former comrades when in the late 1940s and early … Read more
Tues–Thur Spirit of Mother Jones Festival, Firkin Crane, Maldron Hotel, Cork. Speakers: Padraig Yeates, Margaret Aspinall, Ken Fleming, Simon Cordery, Luke Dineen & Jer O’Leary. Enquiries: +353 (0)86 1651356/3196063, www.motherjonescork.com.
Sir,—I am writing to express my concern and shock at seeing my grandfather Einhart Kawerau listed in David O’Donoghue’s article ‘The Nazis in Irish Universities’ (HI 15.5, Sept./Oct. 2007, pp.12-13, https://historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-history/the-nazis-in-irish-universities/ While Dr O’Donoghue limits himself to listing him as a German student in Ireland, his article implies that Einhart Kawerau participated in the German … Read more
Tues–Thur Spirit of Mother Jones Festival, Firkin Crane, Maldron Hotel, Cork. Speakers: Padraig Yeates, Margaret Aspinall, Ken Fleming, Simon Cordery, Luke Dineen & Jer O’Leary. Enquiries: +353 (0)86 1651356/3196063, www.motherjonescork.com.