Nick Maxwell Reflections on the Decade of Centenaries What is the relationship between commemoration and historical scholarship? How has this worked out in practice in the Decade of Centenaries? What were the opportunities taken? What were missed? Join History Ireland editor Tommy Graham in discussion with John Gibney, Brian Hanley, Heather Jones and Fearghal McGarry. The Hedge School series of podcasts is produced by History Ireland and the Wordwell … Read more
1923 An anti-Treaty IRA campaign against political opponents, which included the destruction of the homes of senators, began with the burning down of the homes of the Earl of Mayo and Sir Horace Plunkett.
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr When the Four Courts was captured in June 1922, at the start of the Civil War, 100 IRA prisoners were taken and sent to Mountjoy Jail, among them Rory O’Connor, Liam Mellows, Joe McKelvey and Dick Barrett. On 7 December 1922, TD Seán Hales was killed outside the Dáil and … Read more
Reviewed by Colum Kenny Colum Kenny is the author of A bitter winter: the Civil War and its legacy (Eastwood Books, 2022). In this final session of his series of Machnamh seminars, ‘Memory, History and Imagination’, President Michael D. Higgins said that he wished he could report that his anti-Treaty father and his pro-Treaty uncle … Read more
CIARÁN CASEY Institute of Public Administration €35 ISBN 978910393437 Reviewed by Felix M. Larkin Felix M. Larkin is a historian and a former official of the Department of Finance. When Ronan Fanning was writing his history of the Department of Finance in the 1970s, someone remarked that its opening sentence should be: ‘In the beginning … Read more