THE INTERSECTION OF CHRISTMAS SENTIMENT, NATIONAL IDENTITY AND AESTHETIC TASTE IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY IRELAND By Teresa Breathnach Just before Christmas 1916 Countess Markievicz realised that, with the advent of world war, the festive cards that had been made in Germany had simply been replaced by those made in England. She immediately set about designing a … Read more
HOW DID THE IRISH IN FRANCE FARE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, A PERIOD MARKED BY THE THREAT OF INTERNMENT AND SEVERE FINANCIAL PRESSURES? WHAT WAS THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARD THE GERMAN OCCUPIERS? By Isadore Ryan In March 1941 the Irish legation to the État français, set up in Vichy following France’s defeat by the Germans … Read more
THE SCANDAL OF MARGARET AND MARY BRIGID PEARSE By Teresa and Mary Louise O’Donnell Margaret Pearse, mother of Patrick and Willie, died on 22 April 1932 from a bacterial infection of the skin. She was survived by her daughters Margaret Jr (1878–1968), a teacher and language activist, and Mary Brigid (1884–1947), a musician and author. … Read more
PLATON MIKHAILOVICH KERZHENTSEV, THE FIRST SOVIET HISTORIAN OF IRELAND By Maurice J. Casey In 1914 the Irish poet Padraic Colum and his wife Mary arrived in New York. Initially, they expected to remain for a few months. World events, however, compelled alternative plans, as the descent of Europe into war quickly riveted them to their … Read more
A BOOK THAT GENERATED COLUMNS OF COMMENT IN NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS IN LONDON, NEW YORK, PARIS AND ELSEWHERE WAS IGNORED IN IRELAND By Dennis Kennedy One hundred years ago, on 7 September 1916, the London Times carried a short report of a case at the Bow Street magistrates’ court. The court had been asked to … Read more