The Irish at Gallipoli

So closely do Australians identify with Gallipoli that they often think they were the only ones there, apart from their Anzac partners from New Zealand—and the Turks, of course. Yet the campaign was a multi-national affair, with the Allied forces including soldiers from Britain, France, India, Nepal, North Africa, Newfoundland and Ireland. And while Australians … Read more

The IRA in Britain, 1919–1923, ‘in the heart of enemy lines’

Reviewed by Ruan O’Donnell Ruan O’Donnell is a Senior Lecturer in history at the University of Limerick This welcome addition to Irish republican historiography is long overdue. While Mairtin Ó Catháin, T. Ian Adams, Mary Barrington and Peter Hart are among those to have explored various aspects of the theme in often-important contributions, Noonan brings … Read more

Young Ireland and the writing of Irish history

Reviewed by Sylvie Kleinman Sylvie Kleinman has taught Irish history and historiography at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1925 an academic, critical of the excessive moralising and lack of perspective in classroom teaching, deplored the ‘gush of legend, rhetoric, passion or panegyric’ form of national history that still ran through examination papers. This form of history … Read more