PATRICK MANNION and FEARGHAL McGARRY (eds) New York University Press $35 ISBN 9781479808892 Reviewed by John Horne Ernie O’Malley concluded his classic memoir of the War of Independence, On another man’s wound, with the words: ‘so ended […] what we called the scrap; the people, later on, the trouble; and others, fond of labels, the … Read more
By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls It is late 1864 and the American Civil War rages towards its conclusion. General Sherman and his troops are marching through Georgia to convince the inhabitants of the error of their ways. And so it is that Thomas Conolly, Irish MP, ruminating on affairs at his demesne in Castletown House, Co. … Read more
By Fiona Brennan The playwright, poet and short-story writer Sigerson Clifford is perhaps best known as the author of the ballad ‘The Boys of Barr na Sráide’. He was born in Cork City in 1913, but his parents, Mary Anne Sigerson and Michael Clifford, were originally from Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry, and returned there with their … Read more
www.waterfordtreasures.com/bishops-palace By Donal Fallon It is a sad reality that the Irish capital, at present, has no official civic museum. Readers may recall the former Civic Museum on South William Street, a treasure trove of Dublin relics. A journey through it introduced the visitor to everything from the bullet-ridden head of Horatio Nelson (Thomas Kirk’s … Read more
TG4, 7 December 2022 Laravoulta Pictures By Sylvie Kleinman This deeply thought-provoking and truly historical programme opens with brutal re-enactments: unarmed males are neutralised at close range in indoor settings, their homes, in the dead of night. We are in the now infamous Bandon Valley region of West Cork, where over the course of three … Read more