RICHARD O’RAWE Merrion Press €18.99 ISBN 9781785374470 Reviewed by Kevin Kiely Kevin Kiely is author of Yrland regained: central cantos (Amazon Books, 2020). O’Rawe’s intense, graphic account is based on eyewitness testimony of other IRA volunteers and himself: ‘I knew Freddie Scappaticci […] he and I had been interned without trial in the cages of … Read more
MARY McAULIFFE and HARRIET WHEELOCK (eds) University College Dublin Press €45 ISBN 9781910820018 Reviewd By Sylvie Kleinman Sylvie Kleinman is Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of History, Trinity College Dublin, and has worked for the Dictionary of Irish Biography. ‘8 am S. B’s [St Bartholomew’s Anglican Church, Ballsbridge] Griffith died suddenly 10 a.m. cereb. … Read more
ELAINE CALLINAN, MEL FARRELL and THOMAS TORMEY (eds) University College Dublin Press €25 ISBN 9781910820704 Reviewd by Brian Girvin Brian Girvin is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Was the 1923 general election the most important in independent Ireland? The contributors to this book certainly believe that a strong case can be made for … Read more
PAUL BEW Oxford University Press £25 ISBN 9780192873705 Reviewd By Eoin Dillon Eoin Dillon is a scholar of twentieth-century African history. In his opening remarks, Paul Bew mentions his personal affinity with Charles Stewart Parnell and John Dillon. His mother had gone to the same medical school in Dublin as Dillon, and the family farm … Read more
JAMES QUINN Merrion Press €21.99 ISBN 9781785374739 Reviewed by Paul Rouse To begin with a truism, sport can offer people a great opportunity to assert their identity. That the creation of the structures of the modern sporting world coincided with the rise of nationalism and the nation-state had a marked influence on both processes. The … Read more