Recently added articles from Irish Literary Supplement:
Excerpt from the commencement address at Mount Holyoke College by Mary McAleese, President of Ireland.(Excerpt)(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Over 40 years ago, when I was in my midteens, I announced at home that I had decided to become a lawyer. The first words I heard in response were, "You can't because you are a woman." It was the voice of our parish priest. The next voice I heard was my mother's, saying, "Don't listen to ...
In his weight class.(Sweet William: The Life of Billy Conn)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; ... ANDREW O'TOOLE SWEET WILLIAM; THE LIFE OF BILLY CONN UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS, 2008, $32.95 MORE THAN A POPULAR PASTIME, sports is also social history, indicating class rank and mobility. Athletic achievements have provided white ethnics, ...
A template for Easter Rising studies.(1916: The Long Revolution)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; ... GABRIEL DOHERTY AND DERMOT KEOGH, EDITORS 1916: THE LONG REVOLUTION MERCIER PRESS, 2007, $27.00 FOR MORE THAN FOUR DECADES two edited volumes have endured as classic studies among the ever expanding literature on the Dublin Rising of 1916. They are, ...
Irish peerage debates for king and country.(Proceedings of the Irish House of Lords, 1771-1800, 3 vols.)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; ... JAMES M. KELLY, EDITOR. PROCEEDINGS OF THE IRISH HOUSE OF LORDS, 1771-1800. 3 VOLS. DUBLIN: IRISH MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION, 2008. 150 [euro] DR. JAMES KELLY'S three-volume work detailing the proceedings of the Irish House of Lords was launched on November 5, ...
The scope of Irish emigration.(Ireland and Irish America: Culture, Class, and Transatlantic Migration)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2009; ... KERBY A. MILLER IRELAND AND IRISH AMERICA: CULTURE, CLASS, AND TRANSATLANTIC MIGRATION FIELD DAY, 2008, $33.00 THIS BOOK IS A COLLECTION of fifteen essays on the history of the Irish emigration to America which are revised editions of works published by ...