By Joseph E.A. Connell Seán Mac Eoin, commander of the Longford ‘flying column’, one of the IRA’s most effective, was imprisoned in Mountjoy Prison in March 1921 and thereafter Michael Collins devised several attempts to free him. The first was when Collins had a friendly priest see Mac Eoin, and in the middle of … Read more
NOEL BRADY and SANDRA O’CONNELL (eds) O’Brien Press/Royal Institute for Architects in Ireland €29.99 ISBN 9781788491679 Reviewed by Joseph Brady Joseph Brady is Adjunct Associate Professor of Geography at University College Dublin. Dublin by design: architecture and the city is a very welcome addition to studies of the development of the city. Including the introduction … Read more
BOB GALE and JOE WALSER Insight Editions $29.99 ISBN 9781683836216 Reviewed by James Bartlett James Bartlett is a writer and journalist. Forty years ago the first DeLorean DMC-12 rolled off the production line at the factory in Dunmurry, a suburb of Belfast. Decades later, former employees still talk fondly of those chaotic but exciting days. … Read more
IVAN GIBBONS Haus Publishing £12.99 ISBN 9781913368012 Reviewed by Cormac Moore Dr Cormac Moore is author of Birth of the border: the impact of partition in Ireland (Merrion Press, 2019). Chronologically this book mainly covers the years from 1900 to 1925, whilst still delving into developments in the nineteenth century that contributed to partition as … Read more
(Early Irish Law series vol. VIII) FERGUS KELLY (ed.) Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies €35 ISBN 9781855002418 Reviewed by Catherine Swift Dr Catherine Swift teaches medieval studies at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. A quiet revolution has been happening in early Irish law and Fergus Kelly has been one of its leaders. Until the … Read more