By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr The Treaty debates began in the Mansion House on Dawson Street on 19 December 1921. The Dáil assembled and Eamon de Valera’s ‘Document No. Two’ was derided by Arthur Griffith and Seán Milroy. Griffith moved the ratification of the Treaty and Seán MacEoin seconded it. The next day the debate … Read more
DAVID BURKE Mercier Press £14.99 ISBN 9781781177983 Reviewed by Ian S. Wood Ian S. Wood is co-author (with Andrew Sanders) of Times of Troubles: Britain’s war in Northern Ireland (2012) and Crimes of loyalty: a history of the UDA (2006). David Burke, on the opening page of his new book on British operations in the … Read more
MICHAEL B. BARRY Andalus Press €15.99 ISBN 9780993355486 Reviewed by Maurice Walsh Maurice Walsh is the author of Bitter freedom: Ireland in a revolutionary world 1918–1923 (Faber & Faber, 2015). The Irish War of Independence coincided with the birth of the age of propaganda. The American journalist Walter Lippmann—who had done his bit to … Read more
RICHARD KIRKLAND Bloomsbury £85 ISBN 9781350133181 Reviewed by Angus Mitchell Angus Mitchell is a historian and lives in Limerick. In his contribution to Glór Ulladh 1893–1943, the Belfast singer and writer Cathal O’Byrne remembered: ‘When we went to London to give a series of folk-song recitals, we were the honoured guests of a dinner party … Read more
MYLES CAMPBELL (ed.) Irish Academic Press €45 ISSN 9781788551355 Reviewed by Sylvie Kleinman Sylvie Kleinman is Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of History, Trinity College, Dublin. When Mary Robinson addressed us at her inauguration in St Patrick’s Hall, Dublin Castle, in 1990, she voiced the wish to see women who had felt outside of … Read more