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Patrick Pearse: Psychobiographical Reflections on an Enigmatic, Paradoxical Personality
(SAHKartell, 2016)To date historians have focused almost exclusively on Patrick Pearse’s key role in the 1916 Easter Rising to the extent that there is much less information about his personality development and characteristics. They have ... -
Editorial
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Forgetting and Remembering - Uncovering Women’s Histories at Richmond Barracks: A Public History Project
(SAHKartell, 2016)Richmond Barracks was, in 2015, designated one of the seven major restoration and/or commemorative projects to be funded by the Irish State. The Barracks, with its fascinating yet little remembered military, social and ... -
Marginalizing Memory: Political Commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rising
(SAHKartell, 2016)The recent centenary commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rising were notable for the considerable effort the Irish government put into making them inclusive. However, inclusiveness in this context masks the fact that the ... -
A Recounting of the Stages of French Communist Resistance during World War II and its Relationship to the French Resistance Overall
(SAHKartell, 2015)This paper will recount the stages of communist resistance in France during World War Two and its relationship to the French Resistance overall, as well as analyse the effect that communist resistance in France had on the ... -
Staging the Easter Rising: Plays by W.B. Yeats, Sean O’Casey and Colm Tóibín
(SAHKartell, 2016)Despite the fact that the 1916 Easter Rising has given rise to many critical inquiries and occasioned heated debate among nationalist and revisionist historians, this historical event has been revered almost as a creation ... -
Ó Chéitinn go Conradh: Rising the Revivalists to 1916
(SAHKartell, 2016)Was the Gaelic League the ‘breeding ground’ for the IRB? Was the Irish language the Language of the Revolution? These parting words from the O’Rahilly (Ua Rathghaille) border on absurd black humour but like so many other ... -
Foreign Adoption in Ireland: A Case Study of the Irish-American Adoptions, 1947–1952
(SAHkartell, 2016)The Irish-American adoptions were a revolutionary way of dealing with Ireland’s ‘problem of the illegitimate child’. Ireland had long been promoted as a Catholic, and thus, a morally pure country. Having a child out of ... -
The Making and Remaking of Irish History: An Interview with Vincent Comerford
(SAHKartell, 2016)On Tuesday, 26 April 2016, I sat down with former head of History at Maynooth University, Professor Vincent Comerford, to chat about the current state of the discipline, about changes within history over time and the telling ...