Come out, ye Black and Tans

HISTORY: EUNAN O'HALPIN reviews The Black Tans: British Police and Auxiliaries in the Irish War of Independence, 1920-1921 By…


Rumour, gossip and coincidence

HISTORY: The Year of Disappearances: Political Killings in Cork, 1921-1922 By Gerard Murphy Gill Macmillan, 408pp. €24.99


The revolution's unsung hero

MICHAEL KENNEDY reviews My Father, The Genral by Ristéard Mulcahy, Liberties Oress, 283pp €17.99



The need to memorialise

POETRY: Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry 1914-1945 Edited by Gerald Dawe Blackstaff, 412pp, £16


Piecing the intelligence together

Irish History: Anyone attempting to write a fresh account of the battle between the IRA and British intelligence faces two major…


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…



The quiet man and the big fellow

Eighty years ago, the paths of two men - one who made films, the other who made history - crossed on a turbulent boat journey…




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