JOSEPH E.A. CONNELL Jr Wordwell Books €19 ISBN 9780993351884 Reviewed by Lorcan Collins Lorcan Collins is the author of 1916: the Rising handbook (O’Brien Press, 2016). Joe Connell, a regular contributor to History Ireland, is responsible for collecting and publishing an enormous database of addresses associated with the revolutionary period 1916–23. His encyclopaedic knowledge and … Read more
SEÁN MITCHELL Haymarket €17.50 ISBN 9781608466788 Reviewed by Geoffrey Bell Geoffrey Bell is the author of Hesitant comrades: the Irish revolution and the British labour movement (Pluto, 2016). In October 1932 the workers of Belfast rioted. Nothing new there. They had rioted many times before and were to do so many times again. Such, apparently, … Read more
The impact of print may have been more muffled than initially supposed. By Toby Barnard Between 1550 and 1800 almost 30,000 different publications were printed in Ireland. This development, accelerating from the 1720s, has been seen as the motor driving enlightenment, secularisation, rationalism, nationalism, material and mental betterment, ‘modernity’, political engagement, restlessness and ultimately, in … Read more
NOVEMBER 01 Wed 8pm Rathmichael Historical Society, National School, Stonebridge Road, Shankill. Early medieval masons in Rathdown, Jason Bolton. Adm. €4. 03 Fri 1pm National Monuments and Buildings Record for Northern Ireland, Linen Hall Library, Belfast. The Ulster Scots Archaeological Project, Christina O’Regan and Fintan Walsh. 06 Mon 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, … Read more
Isaac Lally played a prominent role in schooling the last generation of the learned families of Connacht and Ulster. By Ruairí Ó hAodha Of the ‘wild geese’ who departed Ireland after the Williamite wars, the Lallys of Tullinadaly, Co. Galway, stand out for the renown, both glorious and tragic, that they earned in the annals … Read more