MICHAEL B. BARRY Andalus Press €15.99 ISBN 9780993355486 Reviewed by Maurice Walsh Maurice Walsh is the author of Bitter freedom: Ireland in a revolutionary world 1918–1923 (Faber & Faber, 2015). The Irish War of Independence coincided with the birth of the age of propaganda. The American journalist Walter Lippmann—who had done his bit to … Read more
By Lasara Lynch Fionán Lynch was born on 17 March 1889 in Waterville, Co. Kerry. Irish was his first language and he attended Rockwell College and Blackrock College. He planned to study medicine, but his father died suddenly and instead he went to teach Irish in a school in Swansea, Wales, where he founded a … Read more
By Anne Casey On 16 December 1848, fifteen-year-old Catherine McNeill from Roscommon was one of 234 girls to board the Digby, the fifth ship of the Earl Grey scheme to ferry its live cargo of Irish orphan girls to Australia at the height of the Irish Great Hunger. Departing one of Ireland’s worst-hit counties—which … Read more
By Brian Hopkins and Peter McClintock Darver, Co. Louth, 22 December 1799: on this date and in that village Nicholas Joseph Callan was born into a prosperous farming family with a spread of business interests, including brewing. His formal education began at the Presbyterian Dundalk Academy, followed by a stint at Navan Seminary in preparation … Read more
An analysis of the 1833 tithe records of Derrygrath, Co. Tipperary. By John Keating The tithe records for the civil parish of Derrygrath, South Tipperary, account for 3,713 of the 3,777-acre map area (cottages on under one acre are not recorded). The records were compiled in 1833 and include details on the size and cropping … Read more