By Patricia Byrne On 1 April 1851 Edward Nangle, who had founded the Achill Mission colony in the early 1830s, publicly announced that the Mission had purchased the major part […]
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Read More »How doubts about his identity led to an Irishman’s internment in France and his deportation to one of the Nazis’ most notorious concentration camps. By Isadore Ryan On 28 July […]
Read More »By Hiram Morgan The west coast of Ireland in the Elizabethan period was a place of refuge for English explorers, colonisers and privateers in distress after Atlantic voyages. Aiming to […]
Read More »DAVID BURKE Mercier Press £14.99 ISBN 9781781177983 Reviewed by Ian S. Wood Ian S. Wood is co-author (with Andrew Sanders) of Times of Troubles: Britain’s war in Northern Ireland (2012) […]
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