RAY BATESON Irish Graves Publications £17.50 ISBN 9780954227531 If Ray Bateson was lucky enough to be a tenured professor of modern Irish history with an army of research students chomping at the bit for a mention in the credits of one of his books one can only imagine the output he might achieve. He has … Read more
May 1 Thur 8pm Mount Merrion Historical Society, Mount Merrion Community Centre. Birth of aviation in Ireland, Paddy Donohue. Adm. ?4. 6 Tues 8.30pm Kilmacanogue History Society, Glenview Hotel, Glen of the Downs. Do the Irish speak English?, Terry Dolan. Adm. ?3. 7 Wed 8pm Cumann Seanchais Ard Mhacha, Cardinal Ó Fiaich Memorial Library. Scots … Read more
SENIA PASˇETA Cambridge University Press £60 ISBN 9781107047747 Much work has been done on nationalist women in the early twentieth century. Beginning in 1922 with Helena Concannon’s Daughters of Banba, this is a much-tilled field that has attracted scholars from Ireland, Britain, France, Australia, Finland, the United States and New Zealand. Maire O’Neill, with biographies … Read more
DERMOT MELEADY Merrion £26.50 ISBN 9781908928313 REVIEWED BY PATRICK MAUME Jessica Cunningham’s 2012 Hugh Lane Gallery lecture on the visual culture of Home Rule displayed three contemporary images of John Redmond. The second and most prominent, dating from his post-1900 leadership of the Irish Party, is familiar in standard narratives of twentieth-century Irish history: a … Read more
Robert Erskine Childers wrote these words in the darkness of his damp prison cell less than an hour before his execution for unlawfully possessing a firearm (ironically given to him by Michael Collins) during the Civil War. It was then, and has since, been speculated that he had been an agent of the Crown and … Read more