The Wexford Insurgents of ‘98 and their March into Meath, Eamon Doyle (Duffrey Press, £5.99). Leitrim and the Croppies 1776-1804, Gerard Mac Atasney (Carrick-on-Shannon and District Historical Society). The Tellicherry Five, Kieran Sheedy (RTE and The Woodfield Press, £9.99). All that Delirium of the Brave: Kildare in 1798, Mario Corrigan (Kildare County Council, £6). The … Read more
The Year of Liberty: a history of the great Irish rebellion of 1798, Thomas Pakenham (Weidenfeld, 1969 & 1997, £14.99, ISBN: 0297823868). Partners in Revolution: the United Irishmen and France, Marianne Elliott (Yale University Press, 1982 & 1998, £14.50, ISBN: 0300043023). Rebellion in Kildare, 1798-1803, Liam Chambers (Four Courts Press, 1998, pb £9.95, ISBN: 1851823638, … Read more
The seventh annual Norman Connection conference will be held, as usual, on the last weekend in September (25-27) in Fethard-on-sea, County Wexford. The conference examines aspects of Gaelic and Anglo-Norman society and settlement with particular reference to south Wexford. Fethard-on-sea, located in the area of initial Anglo-Norman activity in Ireland is the ideal venue in … Read more
The Parnell Summer School will take place from 9-16 August at Avondale House, Rathdrum, County Wicklow. To commemorate both the bicentenary of 1798 and the 150th anniversary of the Young Ireland rising of 1848 the theme will be ‘the republic’. The aim is to place the United Irish and Young Ireland movements in the wider … Read more
James (Mick) Magennis was born in West Belfast and served in the Royal Navy in World War II. He was the only person from Northern Ireland to win the Victoria Cross, and the only person in naval history to exit a submarine (a midget … Read more