2 St Mary’s Lane, High Street, Kilkenny www.medievalmilemuseum.ie By Tony Canavan Kilkenny’s newest museum is located in one of the city’s oldest buildings, St Mary’s Church, dating back to the twelfth century. There is no attempt to hide the building’s origins and the visitor is aware of being in a former church. The main structure … Read more
Directed by Christopher Nolan By Lar Joye Christopher Nolan has reimagined the World War II movie for a younger generation and, like Saving Private Ryan twenty years ago, has set a new standard for the war film. If you grew up in the 1970s and 1980s in Dublin, every Sunday there were wall-to-wall British war … 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