Haworth, Yorkshire bronte.org.uk By Tony Canavan In the townland of Emdale, Co. Down, are the ruins of a little cottage that has a bronze plaque with the inscription: ‘Patrick Brontë, father of Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne, was born here on 17th March 1777’. From such humble Irish beginnings sprang three of the most famous … Read more
RTÉ1, 11 April 2019 Presented by Michael McDowell By Mary Kenny It is a cliché—because it is true—that until recent times the Catholic Church in Ireland wielded great power and excessive social control, and this situation is blamed for many, if not all, of our woes. This was the main theme of the documentary presented … Read more
By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls When Dr Shane Kenna died two years ago he was only 33, yet he had already established himself as one of the leading and most popular historians of his generation. He had published a number of books and articles on nineteenth-century Irish revolutionaries, but he was possibly better known as a … Read more
EOIN SWITHIN WALSH Merrion Press €19.95 ISBN 9781785371974 Reviewed by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc has a Ph.D in history and has written several books about the Irish Revolution. When most of us think about the Irish Revolution of 1913–23 a very limited geography and chronology of events tend to spring to … Read more
GUY BEINER Oxford University Press £31.50 ISBN 9780198749356 Reviewed by Angus Mitchell How do we orientate the divide between what is publicly acknowledged and what is privately remembered? For anyone who has followed the debate over commemorative politics and legacy problems in Ireland, there is now a shelf-full of books published since the late 1990s … Read more