Nick Maxwell Genocide is a concept that has been applied from time to time to Irish history, most notably to the Great Hunger (An Gorta Mór) of the 1840s. In general, academic historians have shied away from such a discourse, arguing that it is anachronistic. The word wasn’t coined until 1944 by Raphael Lemkin in relation to … Read more
Recorded on the 1 Feb 2024, at the National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street. Join History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham, to mark the 1500th anniversary of the passing of St Brigit, Ireland’s most notable female saint. But who was she?—a figure of history or of myth and legend?—a goddess and/or a feminist icon? With Edel Breathnach, Elva Johnston, Bairbre Ní Fhloinn and Niamh Wycherley.This … Read more
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr On 4 November 1922, Ernie O’Malley was captured after a shoot-out with National Army soldiers at the family home of Nell O’Rahilly Humphries, 36 Ailesbury Road, which had been his headquarters for six weeks. Severely affected by his wounds—he was hit over nine times—O’Malley was transferred from Portobello military hospital … Read more
RICHARD O’RAWE Merrion Press €18.99 ISBN 9781785374470 Reviewed by Kevin Kiely Kevin Kiely is author of Yrland regained: central cantos (Amazon Books, 2020). O’Rawe’s intense, graphic account is based on eyewitness testimony of other IRA volunteers and himself: ‘I knew Freddie Scappaticci […] he and I had been interned without trial in the cages of … Read more
MARY McAULIFFE and HARRIET WHEELOCK (eds) University College Dublin Press €45 ISBN 9781910820018 Reviewd By Sylvie Kleinman Sylvie Kleinman is Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of History, Trinity College Dublin, and has worked for the Dictionary of Irish Biography. ‘8 am S. B’s [St Bartholomew’s Anglican Church, Ballsbridge] Griffith died suddenly 10 a.m. cereb. … Read more