Two giants of Irish history
Big Fellow, Long Fellow: A Joint Biography of Collins and de Valera by T. Ryle Dwyer Gill & Macmillan 371pp, £19.99
A lion come to rest
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The illumination of WBY
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Hyde deserved a more thorough account
Important aspects of the life and times of Ireland's first president, Douglas Hyde, are absent from a current television documentary…
Saint or sinner?
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Capturing the drama and controversy of de Valera's 1919 visit to the US
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A rebel who found his cause
BIOGRAPHY: Roger Casement: Imperialist, Rebel, Revolutionary, By Seamus O'Siochain, Lilliput Press, 656pp
Portrait of a revolutionary afterlife
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Who was the real Seán MacBride?
BIOGRAPHY: Seán MacBride: A Republican Life 1904-1946 By Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid Liverpool University Press 245pp. £65
Splendid, subtle and stimulating
LITERARY CRITICISM: Yeats & Violence , By Michael Wood, Oxford, 272pp. £18.99
The ABC of the Irish
REFERENCE: Dictionary of Irish Biography James McGuire and James Quinn, editors Royal Irish Academy/Cambridge University Press…
The maker of modern Ireland
POLITICS: Judging Lemass: The measure of the man By Tom Garvin Royal Irish Academy, 300pp. €30
The revolution's unsung hero
MICHAEL KENNEDY reviews My Father, The Genral by Ristéard Mulcahy, Liberties Oress, 283pp €17.99
Letters from an unselfconscious revolution
History: 'No Surrender Here!' - The Civil War Papers of Ernie O'Malley, 1922-1924 Edited by Cormac KH O'Malley and Anne Dolan…
The Long Fella re-imagined
History: This is a beautifully produced book. The Royal Irish Academy has certainly delivered for Dr Ferriter
Much more than an Irish nationalist
History: The words of Lord Acton in his inaugural lecture as Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge have an especially…
The formation of a dictator
History Why do we find it so disconcerting to learn that a mass murderer such as Stalin loved gardening, music, literature, …
Collins for the Celtic Tiger cubs
Irish History: As Peter Hart observes, Michael Collins has had a remarkably easy ride from historians and biographers who have…
Inside the Blueshirt's closet
Biography: It has been a long time since anyone thought of Eoin O'Duffy as a hero
Enduring icon of Irish socialism
Biography The enduring power of James Connolly's reputation is a phenomenon in itself
Georgia on his mind A convincing account of how Stalin's childhood influenced his psychology
Biography/Stalin: A Biography By Robert: On my sideboard, I have mounted a permanent exhibition of political kitsch which includes…
A complex personality
Biography In the early 1970s, when I was a student, I found myself on a summer evening in the centre of Dublin with nothing …
Paving the way to hell
History: I despise reviewers who talk about themselves rather than their subject, but - while I will eventually get around to…
A bitter account blind to balance
W.B. Yeats has been the subject of much scholarly attention in recent times.
The dark colours of patriotism
I clearly remember the first time I read Tom Barry's IRA memoir, Guerilla Days in Ireland
Revenge of the spooks?
Biography/Declan Kiberd: 'It is easy to pelt a man who can't reply or who is gone," wrote Roger Casement during his last days…
The making of a revolutionary martyr
History: In September, 1911, Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey of New York introduced himself to Roger Casement in a hotel bar in Bridgetown…
A controversial, contradictory hero
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