Editorial

September 02 Mon 7.30pm Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 63 Merrion Square South, Dublin 2. Undimmed by the shadow of Rome? Ireland in a European world (100 BC–AD 500), Alexandra Guglielmi. 09 Mon 6.30pm Rathmines Library, Dublin 6 (rathmineslibrary@dublincity.ie, 01-497 3539). First Dáil and first shots, Maeve Casserly. 10 Tues 8pm Genealogical Society of … Read more

This September marks the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War—or the ‘Emergency’, as it was officially described here with heroic understatement—and in this issue John Gibney and Michael Kennedy outline the genesis of independent Ireland’s policy of neutrality (pp 48–51). That inevitably raises the question of whether it was the correct, … Read more