Hiram Morgan is joint editor of History Ireland; Mary Clancy is a postgraduate history student at Trinity College, Dublin; Frank Foley is a postgraduate history student at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge; Eugene Coyle is a local historian and writer; Brian Hanley is a postgraduate history student at Trinity College, Dublin
The appearance of two books on the relationship between the Spanish Civil War and Ireland is to be welcomed. It is often forgotten how deep an impact the conflict made on Irish political life, if only for a short period. Public opinion in the Free State was overwhelmingly pro-Franco, as was the Catholic church and … Read more
Tom Reilly is a local historian and has published several local history books on Cromwell and Drogheda. This book he claims is a long overdue evaluation of Cromwell’s campaign in Ireland and challenges all the conventional interpretations of events. According to the accepted version Cromwell was appointed Commissioner by the English Parliament to seek out … Read more
This book represents Anderson and Bort’s fourth collaboration in four years. Having jointly edited two volumes on the eastern frontier of the European Union, they published The Frontiers of Europe in 1998 before bringing out this book, based on papers presented at a conference on the Irish border held at the International Social Sciences Institute … Read more
When she was a young girl, her Uncle Eugene gave Hanna Sheehy the gift of a writing desk. A typical gift, probably, for one of her education and class, yet also symbolic—a practical tool suited to the work of an intellectual. For, fundamentally, it was Hanna’s intellectual curiosity that led her to question the conventional … Read more