TG4 12 April 2020 DoubleBand Films By Donal Fallon In late 2002, music journalist Leagues O’Toole was presenting No Disco, a popular alternative music show on RTÉ television. The show provided a space for diverse acts over its years on air, but its most memorable television moment was a special edition dedicated to Planxty, a … Read more
Royal Irish Academy https://www.ria.ie/online-exhibition-creative-women-ireland-artists-and-writers-archives By Tony Canavan The COVID-19 crisis presents challenges to cultural institutions, as they have had to close their doors to the public and operate with a skeleton staff (if at all). Many of these institutions have responded by mounting exhibitions on-line or publicising the material already on-line. While this is welcome, … Read more
By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls The decade of centenaries trundles on. We have entered the final third, the violence ramps up and a bitter conclusion in vicious civil war comes faintly into view. Of course, we are immersed in our own historic, heart-breaking social upheaval right now. Many of us have cried in the last few … Read more
THOMAS LEAHY Cambridge University Press £18.99 pb 9781108767033 Reviewed by Patrick Mulroe Patrick Mulroe is the author of Bombs, bullets and the border. Policing Ireland’s frontier: Irish security policy, 1969–1978 (Irish Academic Press, 2017). In The intelligence war against the IRA, Cardiff University politics lecturer Thomas Leahy deals with some of the big questions related … Read more
COLIN BARR Cambridge University Press £75 ISBN 9781107040922 Reviewed by Oliver P. Rafferty SJ Oliver P. Rafferty SJ is professor of modern Irish and ecclesiastical history at Boston College. Colin Barr sets out to tell the story of the dominance of the Irish Catholic Church in the English-speaking world in the nineteenth century, and what … Read more