By Aengus Ó Snodaigh Like many cooped up at home during the early days of this Covid-19 pandemic, I would venture, when allowed, to the Phoenix Park to stretch my legs, whiling away an hour or so. More often than not, I gravitated to the imposing and decaying Magazine Fort sitting on top of what … Read more
By Helen Pierce Each January, the National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) curates a month-long, free-of-charge exhibition based around items from the Vaughan bequest of watercolours by J.M.W. Turner. Drawings by the English artist Francis Place (1647–1728) were included in this year’s display, entitled ‘Turner & Place: Landscapes in Light and Detail’. The NGI owns a … Read more
In this issue Jack Hepworth (‘The “good Old IRA”—remembering republican veterans after 1969’, pp 40–3) reminds us that in 1972 there were some 32,000 living republican veterans of the War of Independence and Civil War. They were at the same remove from the events of the ‘revolutionary decade’ as we are now from the events … Read more
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