PATRICK MANNION and FEARGHAL McGARRY (eds) New York University Press $35 ISBN 9781479808892 Reviewed by John Horne Ernie O’Malley concluded his classic memoir of the War of Independence, On another man’s wound, with the words: ‘so ended […] what we called the scrap; the people, later on, the trouble; and others, fond of labels, the … Read more
By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls It is late 1864 and the American Civil War rages towards its conclusion. General Sherman and his troops are marching through Georgia to convince the inhabitants of the error of their ways. And so it is that Thomas Conolly, Irish MP, ruminating on affairs at his demesne in Castletown House, Co. … Read more
SIOBHÁN FITZPATRICK and MARY O’DOWD (eds) Royal Irish Academy €25 ISBN 9781911479833 Reviewed by Mary Kenny Mary Kenny is the author of The way we were: Catholic Ireland since 1922 (Columba Books, 2022). It used to be a feminist principle that the family was the source of women’s oppression. The home was a prison, marriage … Read more
PAURIC TRAVERSFour Courts Press€22.45ISBN 9781846829789 Reviewed by John Dorney John Dorney is the editor of ‘The Irish Story’ website. Pauric Travers’s study of Donegal during the years of upheaval from 1912 to 1923 plots a course from a politics dominated before the Great War by the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) and the remaining patrician unionist … Read more
DAITHÍ Ó CORRÁIN and GERARD HANLEY Four Courts Press €22.45 ISBN 9781801510172 Reviewed by Gerard Shannon Gerard Shannon’s Liam Lynch: Irish revolutionary is due for release from Merrion Press in March 2023. While much has been done recently to illuminate the lives of unknown activists (especially women) of the early twentieth-century Irish revolutionary period, the … Read more