Irish History Compressed

Forthcoming: De geschiedenis van Ierland in een notendop

by Bruce Gaston • 30 December 2019

The Irish History Compressed e-book has been translated into Dutch and will be published in the New Year. This translation joins the French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian versions, and will itself soon be joined by German and Greek translations. A…

Reviews

Review of The Border by Diarmaid Ferriter

by Bruce Gaston • 27 October 2019

The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics Diarmaid Ferriter Profile Books London A combination of the Decade of Commemoration in Ireland and the shenanigans around a Brexit deal have led to a renewed focus on the…

News

Ulster v Eire: The Unification Question (1938)

by Bruce Gaston • 19 September 2019

An ex-colleague sent me this link. It’s apparently a contemporary newsreel, and the general tone is all very much of its time. It’s quite odd, though, and a bit inaccurate too. At 1 min. 28 they show what must be…

Decade of Commemoration, Reviews

Book Review: Bitter Freedom: Ireland in a Revolutionary World 1918-1923

by Bruce Gaston • 6 February 2019

Bitter Freedom: Ireland in a Revolutionary World 1918-1923 Maurice Walsh Faber & Faber So much has been published about the Irish revolutionary period (1910-1923) over the course of the last few years that one has to be selective about…

Significant dates

A Beginner’s Guide to the First Dáil

by Bruce Gaston • 16 January 2019

What? The first Dáil. OK, and again, what? “Dail”? No, “Dáil”, with a fada. That accent thingy? Yes. What does it do? It changes the pronunciation. And the correct pronunciation would be? Doyle. As in Mrs Doyle? From Father Ted?…

Link

My review of Oscar Wilde’s Elegant Republic: Transformation, Dislocation and Fantasy in Fin-de-siècle Paris by David Charles Rose has just been published online and will be included in the next issue (26.3) of Irish Studies Review.