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A lion come to rest
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In a state of Polemocracy
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Life through a century-old lens
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Saint or sinner?
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Dublin divided
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Easter 1916, remembered by the people who were there
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Come out, ye Black and Tans
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WB Yeats's most uncommon marriage
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The Rising and the falling
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Human heart of a tragedy
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An insurrection in print
MEDIA: LUKE GIBBONS reviews Irish Journalism before Independence: More a Disease than a Profession Edited by Kevin Rafter Manchester…
Black diary is a red herring
Roger Casement, nationalist and human rights activist, was hanged in 1916
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
A nation talking to itself
Irish Oratory : Publishers have been periodically compiling collections of Irish speeches for some time now
Putting the past through a grinder
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Portrait of a revolutionary afterlife
HISTORY: Broken Landscapes: Selected Letters of Ernie O’Malley, 1924-1957 Edited by Cormac KH O’Malley and Nicholas Allen The…
Who was the real Seán MacBride?
BIOGRAPHY: Seán MacBride: A Republican Life 1904-1946 By Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid Liverpool University Press 245pp. £65
Not just glorified villas
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The rise of the Irish high street - and the fall of a retail icon
HISTORY: Commodity Culture and Social Class in Dublin 1850-1916 By Stephanie Rains Irish Academic Press, 226pp. €39
Splendid, subtle and stimulating
LITERARY CRITICISM: Yeats & Violence , By Michael Wood, Oxford, 272pp. £18.99
Quiet power of the humane voice
LITERARY CRITICISM: The Literature of Ireland: Culture and Criticism , By Terence Brown, Cambridge University Press, 281pp
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