1–2 Hill Street, Monaghan monaghan.ie/museum By Tony Canavan Monaghan County Museum is located in a substantial nineteenth-century building in the heart of the town. The fabric of the building has been respected, meaning that the museum’s exhibits are divided over a number of rooms on different floors. Far from being a hindrance, this adds to … Read more
John Stahl’s Parnell (1937). By Tony Tracy Prior to Michael Collins (1996), one has to go back over half a century to find a Hollywood-funded drama dealing with an Irish political figure: the MGM production Parnell (1937), a lavishly produced bio-pic covering the period between Charles Stewart Parnell’s visit to the US in early 1880 … Read more
By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls In October 1921, in the midst of the Treaty negotiations, a Pathé newsreel shown in Irish cinemas featured (on the intertitle) ‘Commandant McKeon’ wearing his IRA uniform while throwing in the sliotar for a match. This might seem innocuous except that, from the (still) governing British perspective at least, McKeon had … Read more
KEVIN O’ROURKE Pelican €20 ISBN 9780241398272 Reviewed by Eoin Dillon Eoin Dillon is a scholar of twentieth-century African history. Brexit has produced a crisis in the British body politic unparallelled since the Second World War. Suez in 1956, when France, the UK and Israel tried to re-seize the canal from the Egyptians and had to … Read more
MILTON C. TOBY University Press of Kentucky $29.95 ISBN 9780813176239 Reviewed by Dean Jobb Dean Jobb is the author of Empire of deception and teaches non-fiction writing at the University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia. On a bitterly cold night in February 1983, a band of armed and masked men descended on a stud … Read more