SEPTEMBER 01–30 Thur–Sat Stillorgan Library, Co. Dublin. Martello towers (exhibition). 01 Thur 2pm National Library of Ireland, Kildare St. The life and works of William Butler Yeats (tour). 05–05 Nov Mon–Sat dlr Lexicon, Haigh Moran Park, Dún Laoghaire. Edward Lee and the Lee family in Dún Laoghaire (exhibition). 05 Mon 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries … Read more
TOM GARVIN Irish Academic Press €22.50 ISBN 9781911024224 Reviewed by: Thomas O’Loughlin It is the common destiny of most scholars, and certainly those who describe themselves as medievalists, to survive only as footnotes—and for the quantity of those footnotes to diminish steadily with the passing of the years. One of the very few exceptions, and … Read more
TIMOTHY EGAN Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $28 ISBN 9780544272880 Reviewed by: Dean Jobb Thomas Francis Meagher should have died in 1849, at the age of 25. A leader of the failed Young Ireland uprising, he faced the death penalty for treason. Offered a chance to speak before the sentence was passed, Meagher—a spellbinding orator—made a passionate … Read more
MARTIN BROWN OSB and COLMÁN Ó CLABAIGH OSB (eds) Four Courts Press €45 ISBN 9781846825729 Reviewed by: Peter Harbison Over the years, and through documentary sources, we have been hearing a lot about the medieval religious orders in this country but, in comparison, very little about the two military orders—the Knights Templar and Knights Hospitaller—who … Read more
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr Frongoch internment camp was located in a former whiskey distillery in Merionethshire, Wales. Until 1916 it housed German prisoners of war in the disused distillery buildings and crude huts, but in the wake of the Rising the German prisoners were moved and it was used as a place of internment … Read more