Book Reviews

IRELAND AND ARGENTINA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: DIASPORA, DIPLOMACY, DICTATORSHIP, CATHOLIC MISSION AND THE FALKLANDS CRISIS

DERMOT KEOGH (with PATRICK KIELY) Cork University Press €39 ISBN 9781782055112 Reviewed by Michael Kennedy Perhaps you can judge a book by its cover? With its dramatic colourful dust-jacket, tasteful blue-and-white Argentinian-themed head and tail bands and its quality finish, Ireland and Argentina in the twentieth century is a prodigious work. By drawing attention to … Read more

BOOKWORM

By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls The man who ruthlessly cross-examined Patrick Kavanagh in his failed 1954 libel action against The Leader newspaper is the same man who established the Arts Council: John A. Costello. In Taoisigh and the arts, journalist, DCU lecturer and current chairman of the council Kevin Rafter offers a thoroughly entertaining and enlightening … Read more

MARY HAYDEN, IRISH HISTORIAN AND FEMINIST, 1862-1942

JOYCE PADBURY Arlen House €25 ISBN 9781851322633 Reviewed by Eamonn O’Flaherty Eamonn O’Flaherty is Associate Professor in the UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland. Joyce Padbury’s biography of Mary Hayden explores the life and career of a woman who broke through a great many barriers to achieve independence, an academic career and … Read more

EOIN MacNEILL: THE PEN AND THE SWORD

CONOR MULVAGH and EMER PURCELL (eds.) Cork University Press € 39 ISBN 978I782054603 Reviewed by Patrick Maume Patrick Maume is a researcher with the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography. Eoin MacNeill is known above all for countermanding the original mobilisation orders for the 1916 Rising. For admirers of Pearse and the Rising leaders … Read more

SPIRITUAL WOUNDS: TRAUMA TESTIMONY & THE IRISH CIVIL WAR

SÍOBHRA AIKEN Irish Academic Press €29.95 ISBN: 9781788551663 Reviewed by Colum Kenny Colum Kenny is the author of: A bitter winter: the Civil War and its legacy (Eastwood Books, 2022). Forthcoming.   In 1967 Irish Civil War veteran George Lennon (1900–1991) was in Rochester, New York, protesting with others against US involvement in the Vietnam War. That … Read more