Ruán O’Donnell & Mícheál Ó hAodha (eds), Voices from the Easter Rising (Merrion Press, 2016, 202 pp, €14.99 PB, ISBN 978-1-78537-066-3)
Just prior to the marathon centenary year of 2016, the manager of Hodges Figgis bookshop in Dublin estimated that there … Read More
Conor Mulvagh, Irish Days, Indian Memories: V.V. Giri and Indian Law Students at University College Dublin, 1913-16 (Irish Academic Press, 2016, 160pp, €16.99 HB).
There were 3,606 persons of Indian birth living in Ireland at the time of the 1911 … Read More
Paul O’Brien, The 1913 Lockout (People Before Profit Alliance, 2013, 34pps, €3 PB).
Cillian Gillespie (ed.), Let Us Rise ! The Dublin Lockout: Its Impact and Its Legacy (Ashfield Press in Association with the Socialist Party, 2013, 142pps, € 5PB).
Padraig … Read More
Francis Devine (ed), A Capital in Conflict: Dublin City and the 1913 Lockout (Dublin City Council, 2013, 405pps, €45.00 HB, €24.95 PB).
Irish labour history is years behind many of its counterparts across the globe. The discipline in Ireland has … Read More
Gerard MacAtasney, Tom Clarke: Life, Liberty, Revolution (Merrion, 2013, 330pps, €60 HB, €17.95 PB).
Tom Clarke was a father figure to the 1916 leaders. The fact that he was from a different generation sets him apart from the other architects … Read More
When Ali Came To Ireland, True Films, RTE One, 1 January 2013. Director: Ross Whitaker
When Ali Came To Ireland tells the story of how Michael ‘Butty’ Sugrue, a Kerry-born London publican and former circus strongman, succeeded in bringing Muhammad Ali to Dublin’s Croke Park Stadium … Read More
Stephen Ferguson, GPO Staff in 1916: Business as Usual (Mercier Press, 2012, 128 pps, €12.99 PB)
The Easter Rising of 1916, and all things associated with it, tends to attract the history book buying public in Ireland like no other event in … Read More
James Curry, Artist of the Revolution: The Cartoons of Ernest Kavanagh, 1884-1916 (Mercier, 2012, 128pps, €12.99 PB)
Ernest Kavanagh was a little known artist who worked as an insurance clerk for the ITGWU at Liberty Hall. He was also the cartoonist for the ITGWU’s … Read More