DAITHÍ Ó CORRÁIN and GERARD HANLEY Four Courts Press €22.45 ISBN 9781801510172 Reviewed by Gerard Shannon Gerard Shannon’s Liam Lynch: Irish revolutionary is due for release from Merrion Press in March 2023. While much has been done recently to illuminate the lives of unknown activists (especially women) of the early twentieth-century Irish revolutionary period, the … Read more
DAVID A. WILSON McGill–Queen’s University Press €31.50 ISBN 9780228011170 Reviewed by Dean Jobb Dean Jobb is the author of The case of the murderous Dr Cream: the hunt for a Victorian era serial killer (Algonquin Books) and teaches non-fiction writing at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Cornelius O’Sullivan was welcomed into … Read more
DERMOT KEOGH (with PATRICK KIELY) Cork University Press €39 ISBN 9781782055112 Reviewed by Michael Kennedy Perhaps you can judge a book by its cover? With its dramatic colourful dust-jacket, tasteful blue-and-white Argentinian-themed head and tail bands and its quality finish, Ireland and Argentina in the twentieth century is a prodigious work. By drawing attention to … Read more
By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls The man who ruthlessly cross-examined Patrick Kavanagh in his failed 1954 libel action against The Leader newspaper is the same man who established the Arts Council: John A. Costello. In Taoisigh and the arts, journalist, DCU lecturer and current chairman of the council Kevin Rafter offers a thoroughly entertaining and enlightening … Read more
By Donal Fallon In November 2021, at the end of a second difficult year for heritage sites, Fáilte Ireland announced the awarding of funding to ten museums and cultural institutions in the capital. One of those recipients, the GAA Museum, has benefited enormously from this and earlier funding. Significantly altered since Tony Canavan’s visit four … Read more