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Singing Ireland’s Song

January 2023

Books drawn on in this essay include: Bard of Erin, The Life of Thomas Moore, by Ronan Kelly, Penguin Ireland, 624 pp, £25.00, ISBN: 978-1844881437 Memoirs of Captain Rock, by Thomas Moore, Longman 1824, Field Day 2008, 328 pp, €25.00, ISBN: 978-0946755370 Captain Rock Detected, by Mortimer O’Sullivan, T Cadell, 1824, 450 pp, With […]

Idols and Good Old Gods

John Minahane

December 2022

The arrival of Christianity in Ireland and the unhelpful notion of ‘paganism’

Changing the Question

Richard Humphreys

December 2022

The triumph of liberal Britain, which survived the eclipse of the party

Shipyard Radical

Henry Patterson

December 2022

The life of Belfast trade unionist and revolutionary socialist James Baird

‘The Catholic Church’

Fergus O’Donoghue

December 2022

What ‘everyone knows’ about Catholic Ireland, and the more complex reality

The Grapes of Mirth

Andreas Hess

November 2022

The traditions and development of a very special Spanish wine

Their Story

Rosita Sweetman

November 2022

Nine families of sister siblings who were influential in Irish history

The Best Intentions

Dermot Dix

November 2022

A British soldier and administrator in 18thc America, India and Ireland

The Casement Diaries

Jeff Dudgeon

October 2022

While trying not to overburden readers with detail, it is important to counter unevidenced assertions and to correct errors in Martin Mansergh’s review of Paul Hyde’s book Casement: Decoding False History (https://drb.ie/articles/blackening-casement/). Hyde has published an earlier book entitled Anatomy of a Lie, offering a number of other theories on the supposed forging of […]

The Kilmichael Ambush

Joost Augusteijn

October 2022

Re-examining the controversial events of the war in Co Cork

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