The composition of the jury that tried and convicted Roger Casement. By Niamh Howlin Once the authorities had decided to try Roger Casement in the English civil courts, his solicitor, George Gavan Duffy, set about trying to secure defence counsel. This was not straightforward, however, as a number of leading barristers refused to represent him. … Read more
By Joe Culley Eugene Broderick, John Hearne: architect of the 1937 Constitution of Ireland (Irish Academic Press, €29.99 hb, 300pp, ISBN 9781911024538). Dr Hubert O’Connor, Napoleon’s doctor: the St Helena diary of Barry O’Meara (O’Brien Press, $16.99 pb, 224pp, ISBN 9781847178916). Conor McNamara and Padraig Yeates (eds), The Dublin Lockout 1913: new perspectives on class … Read more
MICHELE CALLAN Collins Press €14.99 ISBN 9781848893016 HITLER’S IRISH SLAVES DAVID BLAKE KNOX New Island Books €15.95 ISBN 9781848405967 Reviewed by: David O’Donoghue David O’Donoghue is the author of Hitler’s Irish voices (Somerville Press, 2014). It’s a bit like the old Dublin bus joke: you wait for ages and then two come along at once. … Read more
DONNCHADH Ó CORRÁIN Four Courts Press €35 ISBN 9781846826672 Reviewed by: Conor Kostick Discussions about medieval Ireland have often been highly politicised and contested. In the early twentieth century, activists for independence, from Arthur Griffith to James Connolly, became passionate in their engagement with Ireland’s medieval past in order to support Eoin Mac Neill in … Read more
JIM SMYTH (ed.) University of Notre Dame Press $40 ISBN 9780268101749 Reviewed by: Brian Hanley Brian Hanley is an Irish History Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. This book is a welcome reminder that it is possible for historians writing about Ireland’s long war to be fair-minded, even-handed and empathetic. In that alone it … Read more