CORMAC Ó GRÁDA Princeton University Press £40 ISBN 9780691258751 REVIEWED BY Fintan Lane Best known in Ireland for his important contribution over many decades to the study of the Great Irish Famine, the eminent economic historian Cormac Ó Gráda has expanded his range in recent times with a short global history of famine across five … Read more
By Daragh Fitzgerald The odious vortex of sexual abuse, life-shattering trauma and collusion between loyalist paramilitaries, military intelligence and deviant predators at the top of the British establishment delineated in Chris Moore’s Kincora: Britain’s shame—Mountbatten, MI5, the Belfast Boys’ Home sex abuse scandal and the British cover-up brings the impact of Britain’s dirty war in … Read more
RTÉ1 & BBC1, 17 March 2025 By Sylvie Kleinman ‘A little over 1,500 years ago, the wild western land of Ireland was believed by many to be the edge of the world. To this strange land travelled a man, intent on transforming its people. His name was Patrick …’ Thus begins the exaggeratedly aerial voice-over … Read more
National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks By Donal Fallon Photography is having a moment at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, with two very different exhibitions drawing visitors in. A New Form of Beauty draws from the research of Garry O’Neill, author of the cult classic Where Were You?, a social history examination of … Read more
By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr On 13 August 1925, one of the most important undertakings for the economic and social life of Ireland began when the first sod was turned at Ardnacrusha, Co. Clare, for the construction of the Shannon hydroelectric scheme. It was officially opened at Parteen by W.T. Cosgrave on 22 July 1929. … Read more