As mentioned here, my review of An Accidental Villain: Sir Hugh Tudor, Churchill’s Enforcer in Revolutionary Ireland, by Linden MacIntyre, appeared in the Review of Irish Studies in Europe, vol. 9 (1) in April 2026. Here’s the link: https://doi.org/10.32803/rise.v9i1.3448. The…
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Book review: An Accidental Villain: Sir Hugh Tudor, Churchill’s Enforcer in Revolutionary Ireland – Linden MacIntyre
This is just a quick post to say that my review of An Accidental Villain: Sir Hugh Tudor, Churchill’s Enforcer in Revolutionary Ireland, by Linden MacIntyre, has just been published in the Review of Irish Studies in Europe, vol. 9…
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The Irish government has released some previously classified documents at the turn of the year. There are some that cast light on events in Northern Ireland and Ireland more generally.
The Guardian reports on stories aof acrimonious meetings between David Trimble, leader of the UUP, and Tony Blair, in the period after the signing of the Belfast Agreement in 1997: David Trimble was ‘extraordinarily rude’ to Tony Blair at Good Friday talks
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/27/david-trimble-was-extraordinarily-rude-to-tony-blair-at-good-friday-talks
Another headline, “Diana apparently believed Northern Ireland part of the Republic, archive shows” seems to put the worst spin on what may have been a slip of the tongue or a poorly expressed pleasantry. Make up your own mind here.
Irish History Compressed e-book – second edition
A revised and slightly expanded version of my short history of Ireland should be available from all good e-book retailers by the time you read this. A couple of years ago, when the offer came to translate the original e-book…
Eine komprimierte Geschichte Irlands:
Irish History Compressed in German
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On this day: The Signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty
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Review of The Border by Diarmaid Ferriter
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Book Review: Bitter Freedom: Ireland in a Revolutionary World 1918-1923
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A Beginner’s Guide to the First Dáil
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?…