Thomas Fitzgerald
Articles by Thomas Fitzgerald
2017
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Irish History
The Republican Journey
A new study presents a largely sympathetic history of the Provisional Republican Movement as it has gradually moved away from violence and increased its electoral…
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Irish History
The Fish and the Water
A study of the IRA’s relations with the people during the War of Independence reveals that while there was sometimes intimidation, its level can easily…
2016
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Irish History
Ministering to All
Families and generations were often divided over the wisdom of making war on the British. One west Cork IRA man recalled his patriotic parents saying…
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Irish History
Half The Man
A new biography of Patrick Pearse neglects the important cultural and educational sides of his achievement and fails to build on or even engage with…
2015
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Irish History
The Risen People
The 1916 Rising can summon up more unanimity of feeling in the nation than many other events that occurred a few years before or after.…
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Irish History
Lost Leaders
Two biographies of 1916 organisers Thomas MacDonagh and Eamonn Ceannt reveal strongly contrasting personalities, the former a cultured and cosmopolitan figure who saw his death…
2014
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Irish History
The Insurrectionist
1916 leader Sean Mac Diarmada despised Ireland’s involvement in the British parliamentary tradition. He believed that an uprising, and the likely self-sacrifice of its leaders,…
2013
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Irish History
Rebel Cork
The first of a projected three-volume study of revolution and war in Cork City examines the period from the Easter Rising to the Armistice.