My attention was first called to Ulster-born writer George A. Birmingham by a review of his novel The Major’s Candlesticks on the Reading 1900–1950 blog. That novel is a comedy set in the aftermath of the Irish War of Independence…
The Red Hand of Ulster by George A. Birmingham:
A Short History of Ireland in Spanish and Portuguese:
"Uma História Resumida Da Irlanda/Historia Resumida De Irlanda"
Exciting news: IHC’s e-book guide to Irish history has been translated into Spanish and Portuguese, with an Italian translation in progress. As well as Amazon, all the usual retailers are stocking it: Apple, Google Play, Scribd, Kobo and so on,…
Irish History Compressed’s most popular posts in 2014
These are the posts that got the most views in 2014: History Carnival 131 (March 2014) Book Review: Fatal Path by Ronan Fanning (June 2014) Significant Commas in Irish History (February 2014) “Scots should recall the poverty of the Irish…
State papers: Dublin’s fear of civil war and Provos bankrolled by Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi:
from BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
There wasn’t as much coverage of the revelations contained in declassified government papers this year as there was last year – surprising as they deal with the period of the Anglo-Irish Agreement. There are a few little gems nonetheless, such…
An Irish Buddhist agitator in Burma:
filming a different kind of anti-colonialism
(A guest post by Dr. Laurence Cox of the University of Maynooth, Ireland) On Saturday March 2nd 1901, a barefoot Irishman confronted an off-duty Indian police officer at the Shwedagon pagoda in colonial Rangoon, challenging his right to walk there…
Who was Felix Park?
Nowadays, of course, there’s Irish History Compressed to deal with these kinds of annoyances!