Though subtitled ‘the Irish Revolution 1913–1923’, this work is as much concerned with how the revolution came to be remembered and contested in memory as it is with telling the events of the revolutionary period itself. Indeed, the examination of the period’s legacy comes before the period itself. Anyone looking for the latest forensic analysis … Read more
Emer Purcell, Paul MacCotter, Julianne Nyhan and John Sheehan (eds), Clerics, kings and Vikings: essays on medieval Ireland in honour of Donnchadh Ó Corráin (Four Courts Press, €60 hb, 584pp, ISBN 97871846824951). Howard B. Clarke and Ruth Johnson (eds), The Vikings in Ireland and beyond: before and after the Battle of Clontarf (Four Courts Press, … Read more
The Irish Whiskey Museum is Dublin’s latest, and it has a prime site opposite the front gate of Trinity College. The entrance is located between two shops and may be easy to miss, which may account for the fact that there were only four other people on the tour that I took, although the 3pm … Read more
THE FEMINIST MOVEMENTS OF THE 1960S AND 1970S ELSEWHERE WERE IN ESSENCE MODERNISATION MOVEMENTS; IRELAND’S TIME-LINE WAS DIFFERENT. The feminist organisation of which I was a founding member in 1970 was called the ‘Irish Women’s Liberation Movement’ (IWLM). It is historically inappropriate to call it ‘the women’s movement’ as there were many different ‘women’s movements’, … Read more
In the decade after the passing of the Poor Relief (Ireland) Act of 1838, the workhouse system was rolled out across Ireland. Irish workhouses were created to house the destitute poor. In the second half of the nineteenth century their remit extended to public health. The surviving Irish Poor Law Union (PLU) records describe not … Read more