Nick Maxwell By Helen Litton On Saturday 29 November 2025, a new gravestone was officially unveiled in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, to the accompaniment of prayers, music and a display of nationalist banners. The grave being honoured belongs to the parents of Thomas J. Clarke, first signatory of the 1916 Proclamation and widely acknowledged as a prime mover … Read more
Irish people will have more than a passing interest in the forthcoming 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America, with whom no other country, bar its original colonial master, Britain, has had such a deep and long-standing relationship. It is estimated that nearly seven million Irish emigrated there from colonial times … Read more
GERARD MURPHY The Collins Press €19.99 ISBN 9781848893375 Reviewed by: Nigel Jones Nigel Jones is a former editor of History Today and BBC History Magazine. The fatal shooting of Michael Collins in his own Cork countryside not only deprived Ireland of its most dynamic, gifted and charismatic leader but also left an enduring mystery. Was … Read more
By Andy Bell ‘The first Welsh-language radio broadcast was made from Dublin.’ That surprising and incorrect assertion came from not one but two governments in the Ireland–Wales Shared Statement and Joint Action Plan 2021 to 2025. Both the Dublin and Cardiff governments had misconstrued a single event and, in so doing, belittled a far more … Read more
By John Mulqueen and Fergus Whelan Too young for involvement in the Saor Éire or Republican Congress initiatives, Paddy Whelan witnessed the revival of left-wing activity in Dublin from the start of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. As a member of the IRA, he also witnessed the upsurge in right-wing activity in the shape … Read more