DAMIEN DUFFY Boydell Press £75 ISBN 9781783275939 Reviewed by Gillian Kenny Gillian Kenny is a research fellow at the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, Trinity College, Dublin. This book is dedicated to two women, the grandmothers of the author. In their honour, Damien Duffy has constructed a fascinating and engaging work focused on the … Read more
NICHOLAS CANNY Oxford University Press £90 ISBN 9780198808961 Reviewed by John Gibney This book arose, as its author admits in the very first line, ‘by accident rather than design’. Nicholas Canny is one of the small group of historians who revolutionised the study of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ireland from the 1960s onwards. His work was … Read more
By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls In the cover story of our previous edition, Laurence Geary explained that vaccination in Ireland is often said to have begun in Cork in 1800 when a local physician treated 300 children against smallpox. How appropriate, then, that Cork again features as ground zero in Strangling angel: diphtheria and childhood immunization … Read more
Kinsale, Co. Cork (021) 477 2263 charlesfort@opw.ie By Tony Canavan On a recent break in Kinsale, I took the opportunity to visit Charles Fort, which, along with the smaller James Fort, guards the entrance to the harbour of this historic town. From the outside the fort is impressive, but only once inside do you realise … Read more
RTÉ1, 26 October and 2 November 2021 By Donal Fallon In the ever-growing field of Museum Studies, much is written on outreach and the importance of museums taking their knowledge out of their own four walls and into broader communities. Over two parts, An tSlí demonstrated the manner in which the National Famine Museum at … Read more