Nick Maxwell By Sophie McGurk Kilmainham Gaol exists in the forefront of Ireland’s mind as the site of execution of seven leaders of the 1916 Rising. It is an institution intrinsically linked with the story of Irish nationalism. Kilmainham Gaol was first built in 1796 and from its conception it was a site of crowded incarceration and … Read more
By Jesse Harrington This month (11 May 2025) will see the international public commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the canonisation of St Lorcán Ua Tuathail (Laurence O’Toole), twelfth-century archbishop and patron saint of Dublin. The event will be attended by municipal, regional and state dignitaries and officials, and will be marked by an ecumenical … Read more
CONOR McCABE (ed.) Iskra Books €21.99 ISBN 9798330435210 REVIEWED BY Emmet O’Connor Emmet O’Connor is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Humanities at the Ulster University. With over 1,000 publications on James Connolly, including a number of editions of ‘collected works’, one might think that his writings had been excavated exhaustively. Not … Read more
ROBERT BARTLETT Cambridge University Press £20 ISBN 9781009457156 REVIEWED BY Murray Smith Murray Smith is a barrister and history graduate of University College Dublin. Robert Bartlett, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of St Andrews, shows his skill and experience in this short but pithy book. He points out that ‘The past is … Read more
IAN GENTLES Bloomsbury Academic £28.99 ISBN 9781350375864 REVIEWED BY John Morrill John Morrill is Emeritus Professor of British and Irish History, Selwyn College, Cambridge, and Hon. Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. This is a modestly revised version of a biography first published in 2011. Ian Gentles is a Canadian who wrote a Ph.D in London … Read more