Mohill native and Munster Technological University lecturer, Dr. Padraig McGarty will tell the story of incidents that happened on the Manorhamilton to Glenfarn.
Eoin Meegan This book is a too-long overdue roll call of gifted, intellectual, artistic, patriotic and heroic women who contributed in no small way to life in Dublin, and in many cases the nation. As well as names you would expect in any honours list of Irish women; Constance Markievicz, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Madeleine ffrench-Mullen,
Mohill native and Munster Technological University lecturer, Dr. Padraig McGarty will tell the story of incidents that happened on the Manorhamilton to Glenfarn.
Review of Noraid and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1970-1994 by Robert Collins (Four Courts Press, £45/€50) IN recent years, the USA has been widely and routinely praised for its help in forging the Good Friday Agreement. Fair enough. But only up to a point, because it conveniently overlooks the fact that over the course of many years the United States’ authorities worked hard to undermine the republican struggle and they did so at the bidding of, and in collusion with, successive UK governments. Several passages in this book are reminders of the way in which attempts by Irish Americans to lend both financial and moral support to the beleaguered people of the Six Counties were continually frustrated. Republicans were barred from entry to the States. Those who did get in were deported. For a considerable period, the State Department didn’t lift a finger to help nationalists. As for Irish people on the run from unjust Diplock courts who sought sanctuary in the land of the f
Review of Donegal: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23 by Pauric Travers (Four Courts Press, £22.50/€24.95) VISITORS who arrive in Donegal from countries elsewhere, including from Britain, wonder at the incongruity. It is Ireland’s northern-most county yet it is “in the South.” Surely it makes no geographical sense. Naturally, they ask why? How come it wasn’t hived off with those other six counties that comprise 'Northern Ireland'? After all, it’s in Ulster, isn’t it? Although I have answered that question many scores of times down the years, the simplicity of my reply rarely fails to elicit a measure of surprise, even shock. Perhaps it’s my bluntness: “Too many Catholics about the place.” I particularly enjoy saying this to British people because so few of them know anything about their state’s closest colony. Home Rule bills, the Rising, the Tan War, partition, the civil war – not to mention, the hundreds of years of British rule that went before �