www.decadeofcentenaries.com In late November the official ‘Decade of Centenaries’ website was launched—an initiative of the Department of Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, in association with History Ireland. Over the course of the next ten years, a wide range of centenaries are going to be marked, and the new website is intended to keep a record … Read more
January 1 1974 The power-sharing Northern Ireland executive, under Chief Executive Brian Faulkner, took up office. Three days later Faulkner was forced to resign as leader of the Official Unionist Party when the Ulster Unionist Council rejected the establishment of a Council of Ireland under the terms of the Sunningdale Agreement. 3 1864 John Hughes, … Read more
De Valera’s return to the Oireachtas was in the context of the ceremonies to mark the golden jubilee of the first meeting of Dáil Éireann, which had sat for the first time on 21 January 1919. Following consultations with the government and the council of state, it was agreed that President de Valera would address … Read more
Errol got all the fame, but his father, Theodore Flynn, a respected academic, deserves recognition too. So think Tony and Vicki Harrison, Australian writers who have penned a biography of Prof. Flynn, father of the Hollywood legend, who taught at Queen’s University, Belfast, in the 1930s and ’40s. Flynn senior was born in Australia but … Read more
James Hughes’s article in this issue on the counterinsurgency theory and practice of General Sir Frank Kitson (pp 44–8) is indeed timely, particularly in the wake of the ‘Panorama’ documentary Britain’s secret terror force (BBC1, 21 Nov. 2013). The documentary dealt with the actions of an undercover British Army unit known as the Military Reaction … Read more