Netflix, directed by Rickie Smyth By Lar Joye The siege of Jadotville tells the story of what happened to 155 soldiers from the Irish Army’s A company of the 35th Battalion who found themselves in the unenviable position of being in a remote mining town far from reinforcements and surrounded by a population who did … Read more
RTÉ1, 28 September, 5 and 12 October 2016 By John Gibney John Connors: The Travellers begins with the eponymous presenter recounting a range of pejorative terms that might be used against Travellers before pointing out that all of them have equally been used in the past against the Irish as a whole. It is an … Read more
National Gallery of Ireland, Merrion Square W, Dublin 2 www.nationalgallery.ie Brendan Rooney, Creating History: stories of Ireland in art (Irish Academic Press, €22.50 hb, ISBN 9781911024286) By Tony Canavan As part of the 1916 centenary commemorations, the National Gallery of Ireland has put together 50 paintings exploring Irish history from the arrival of St Patrick … Read more
By Joe Cully Michael Christopher Keane, From Laois to Kerry (M.C. Keane, €20 pb, 130pp, ISBN 9780992698867). Michael English, The Ha’penny Bridge, Dublin (Dublin City Council/Four Courts Press, €24.95 pb, 278pp, ISBN 9781907002298). Peter O’Keeffe, Tom Simington and Rob Goodbody, Irish stone bridges: history and heritage (Dublin City Council/Irish Academic Press, €35.99 hb, 370pp, ISBN … Read more
ADRIAN FRAZIER €20 Lilliput Press ISBN 9781843516781 Reviewed by: Anthony J. Jordan Anthony J. Jordan’s books on the Yeats/Gonne/MacBride triangle are now available on Kindle. This is a most interesting book by an author who is not in thrall to any of the main participants/protagonists, though he does jib at Maud Gonne’s use of the … Read more