By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr In April 1916, Austin Stack was IRB Centre and commander of the Irish Volunteers in Kerry. When Stack heard that Sir Roger Casement had landed from a submarine, he went in search of him, was arrested and was taken to Causeway RIC barracks, where he pulled a revolver and escaped. … Read more
EMMET O’CONNOR UCD Press €27 ISBN 9781910820858 Reviewed by Niall Meehan Niall Meehan is the retired head of the Journalism and Media Faculty, Griffith College. Accounts of the 1912 and 1920 Belfast shipyard expulsions detail tens of thousands of Catholics forcibly driven from their places of employment, followed by being burned out of their homes. … Read more
A HISTORY OF THE IRISH AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY SERVICES MÍCHEÁL Ó FATHARTAIGH Wordwell Books €30 ISBN 9781913934606 Reviewed by Trevor Storey Trevor Storey was formerly a lecturer in Crop Science in the School of Agriculture and Food Science, UCD. At first glance, the title of this book may be a little misleading to the casual observer, … Read more
TARIQ ALI Verso £20 ISBN 9781788735773 Reviewed by Kevin Kiely Kevin Kiely is the author of Harvard’s patron: Jack of All Poets (CreateSpace, 2018). Tariq Ali, after writing The forty-year war in Afghanistan, ably presents Churchill using warlord tropes reflecting England’s planned agendas of imperialism in the lineage of Cromwell, (Robert) Peel, Gladstone, Thatcher and … Read more
DANIEL AYIOTIS Eastwood Books €25 9781913934330 Reviewed by Marie Coleman Marie Coleman is Professor of Twentieth-Century Irish History at Queen’s University Belfast. I first visited the Irish Military Archives in November 1993 to conduct research for my undergraduate history dissertation on the Irish Civil War. Thirty years later the archives’ collections—in particular the on-line Military … Read more