archive.waterwaysireland.org By Nuala Reilly Waterways Ireland has digitised its archive collections, making 200 years of waterways engineering history available to the public through their new digital archive, launched in the summer of 2021. One of the all-island North–South Bodies established under the Good Friday Agreement in 1999, Waterways Ireland is the navigation authority responsible … Read more
By Joseph E.A. Connell In September 1921 Eamon de Valera wrote to Prime Minister Lloyd George, confirming that a conference was to be set to negotiate a Treaty: ‘Our respective positions have been stated and are understood and we agree that conference, not correspondence, is the most practical and hopeful way to an understanding. We … Read more
SEAMUS DEANE Cambridge University Press €28 ISBN 9781108892810 Reviewed by Vona Groarke Vona Groarke is a poet and author. Her Link: poet and world will be published in October 2021 by the Galley Press. When the published essay seems, so often now, to have the qualifier ‘personal’ attached, it is as refreshing as it is … Read more
LEESA WHEATLEY and FLORIAN KROBB (trans. & ed.) Cork University Press €29 ISBN 9781782054351 Reviewed by Róisín Healy Róisín Healy lectures in History and Philosophy at NUI, Galway. A journalist based in Berlin, Richard Arnold Bermann travelled to Ireland at a moment of great political uncertainty for both Ireland and Europe. In the summer of … Read more
JOEP LEERSSEN (ed.) Cambridge University Press £30 ISBN 9781108861786 Reviewed by Margaret O’Callaghan Margaret O’Callaghan is a historian and political analyst at Queen’s University, Belfast. This is a collection of essays written by some of the distinguished scholars who have held the annual Parnell Fellowship at Magdalene College, Cambridge, over the past decades. It is … Read more