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Review of Donegal: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23 by Pauric Travers (Four Courts Press, £22.50/€24.95) VISITORS who arrive in Donegal from countries elsewhere, including from Britain, wonder at the incongruity. It is Ireland’s northern-most county yet it is “in the South.” Surely it makes no geographical sense. Naturally, they ask why?  How come it wasn’t hived off with those other six counties that comprise 'Northern Ireland'? After all, it’s in Ulster, isn’t it?  Although I have answered that question many scores of times down the years, the simplicity of my reply ...

Margaret Ward’s groundbreaking 1983 book on revolutionary women in Ireland, Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism, 1880-1980, was republished in an updated, revised, and richly illustrated new edition by Arlen House in late 2021.

Margaret Ward’s groundbreaking 1983 book on revolutionary women in Ireland, Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism, 1880-1980, was republished in an updated, revised and richly illustrated new edition by Arlen House in late 2021.

Republicans across Ireland were saddened to hear of the death of Tina Shannon last week. Many travelled to her funeral in Dublin where Eamonn Nolan gave the graveside oration for a remarkable and c...

CARLOW Historical and Archaeological Society (CHAS) continued the proud tradition of its popular collection of historical essays with the recent launch of ***