By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr The Third Dáil ratified the Constitution (Bunreacht na hÉireann) of the Irish Free State on 18 September 1922. The document was drafted in the Shelbourne Hotel in the ‘Constitution Room’. The committee appointed to draft the Constitution was chaired by Michael Collins, but Darrell Figgis, the vice-chairman, was responsible for … Read more
JOYCE PADBURY Arlen House €25 ISBN 9781851322633 Reviewed by Eamonn O’Flaherty Eamonn O’Flaherty is Associate Professor in the UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland. Joyce Padbury’s biography of Mary Hayden explores the life and career of a woman who broke through a great many barriers to achieve independence, an academic career and … Read more
CONOR MULVAGH and EMER PURCELL (eds.) Cork University Press € 39 ISBN 978I782054603 Reviewed by Patrick Maume Patrick Maume is a researcher with the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography. Eoin MacNeill is known above all for countermanding the original mobilisation orders for the 1916 Rising. For admirers of Pearse and the Rising leaders … Read more
SÍOBHRA AIKEN Irish Academic Press €29.95 ISBN: 9781788551663 Reviewed by Colum Kenny Colum Kenny is the author of: A bitter winter: the Civil War and its legacy (Eastwood Books, 2022). Forthcoming. In 1967 Irish Civil War veteran George Lennon (1900–1991) was in Rochester, New York, protesting with others against US involvement in the Vietnam War. That … Read more
COLM TÓIBÍN (ed.) Pennsylvania State University Press $45 ISBN 9780271092898 Reviewed by Daniel Mulhall James Joyce’s Ulysses is full of history, has quite a history and is now part of history. There are not many novels that warrant, or attract, the kind of celebratory surge Ulysses has prompted this year. Even at the ripe age … Read more