By Penny McGovern For this winter issue we present a couple of cheery Christmas crackers from the IFI Archive Player. See festive crowds gathering in 1960s Dublin city centre and […]

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By Joseph E.A. Connell Jr Éamon de Valera issued his famous ‘Legion of the Rearguard’ statement to anti-Treaty fighters on 24 May 1923: ‘Soldiers of the Republic. Legion of the […]

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ALLYSON McCABE University of Texas Press $24.95 ISBN 9781477325704 Reviewed by Éamon Ó Caoineachan Éamon Ó Caoineachan is a freelance writer and poet at the University of St Thomas, Houston, […]

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THE BATTLE TO CONTROL FEMALE FERTILITY IN MODERN IRELAND MARY E. DALY Cambridge University Press £25.99 ISBN 9781009314879 CONTRACEPTION AND MODERN IRELAND: A SOCIAL HISTORY, c. 1922–92 LAURA KELLY Cambridge […]

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PAUL O’BRIEN Cork University Press €49 ISBN 9781782053415 Reviewed by Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel is the author of Bernard Shaw, Seán O’Casey, and the dead James Connolly (Palgrave, 2021). […]

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