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In March 2016, the Irish Censorship of Publications Board took measures to ban its first book in 18 years, titled "The Raped Little Runaway," by Jean Martin. As recently as 2012, as an in-depth ...
The top twenty books that every Irish American should read: “Memories of a Catholic Girlhood,” by Mary McCarthy. An intellectual writer washes her hands of her past but acknowledges its benefits.
Entertainment Running from Office is 2024′s best political book Former Irish cabinet minister Eoghan Murphy shares his honest reflections about his time in public office in Running from Office ...
Irish writer Donal Ryan has been announced in London as the winner of the prestigious Orwell Prize for Political Fiction for ...
In 1994, Gerry Adams, the former Irish Republican Army militant turned political leader, was controversially given a visa to tour the United States, where he took the opportunity to give a speech ...
Ancestral Voices in Irish Politics by Paul Bew: Parnell and Dillon, the Home Rule allies who couldn’t help hating each other. Charles Stewart Parnell and John Dillon wanted the same thing but ...
How the Irish ‘diaspora’ went from underclass to political powerbrokers Sean Connolly's On Every Tide traces how Irish immigrants in America clawed their way up via the unions until they got a ...
“Irish Studies is looking forward to working with Professor Mary C. Murphy and enhancing insights from political science in our interdisciplinary programming, alongside our long-standing strengths in ...