Irish history 
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/30/2022
Thomas Cahill, Popular and Scholarly Historian of Ireland, Dies at 82
Cahill's 1995 surprise bestseller emphasized the role of isolated Irish monks in preserving religious and literary scholarship after the fall of Rome.
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10/30/2022
The Long Road to Redress in Ireland
by Mark Holan
James Smith, a scholar and advocate for the victims of Ireland's social service institutions including mother and child homes, reformatories, and the notorious Magdalen Laundries, warns that the government's attempts at compensation stifle openness and transparency.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
10/6/2022
United Ireland "Closer Now than it's Ever Been"
Both demographic change in the North and shifts in United Kingdom politics have made Irish reunification a reasonable possibility to discuss.
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SOURCE: News Talk
9/25/2022
British and Irish Historians Discuss Oliver Cromwell
Patrick Geoghegan talks all things Cromwell with a panel of historians.
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SOURCE: Nursing Clio
8/11/2022
"Phantom Catholic Threats" Haunt Ireland's National Maternity Hospital
by Máiréad Enright
Secular Irish health advocates fear that a partnership between the state and religious charities to operate the national maternity hospital will impose limits on care, including abortion access. Is this justified or a case of finding "nuns under the bed"?
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SOURCE: New York Review of Books
7/28/2022
The Irish Lesson: Abortion Bans Won't Stop Abortion
by Fintan O'Toole
The recently overturned Irish constitutional ban on abortion and the recent attack by conservative Americans on abortion rights have a common intellectual champion in Notre Dame's Charles E. Rice. The Irish learned the hard way what followed.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
3/28/2022
Ireland, We Hardly Knew Ye: Fintan O'Toole's Story of Modernization
by Jack Sheehan
Fintan O'Toole's acclaimed popular history of modern Ireland delivers a sharp indictment of child abuse by Catholic priests and the operators of reform schools and institutions, but substitutes national-level psychoanalysis for research in other areas, a historian argues.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
3/14/2022
Fintan O'Toole on Ireland's Great Gamble
O'Toole's "personal history" of Ireland shows that the Republic sought both modern prosperity and traditional values, but could secure only one.
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3/17/2022
The Trappings of Catholic Tradition Around St. Patrick's Day are out of Step with Modern Ireland
by Donald Beaudette and Laura Weinstein
Americans claiming a connection to Irish heritage and tradition today should consider the Republic of Ireland's ongoing transition toward a more secular, liberal, and multicultural democracy.
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3/17/2022
The Trappings of Tradition Around Irish-American St. Patrick's Day are out of Step with Modern Ireland
by Donald Beaudette and Laura Weinstein
Americans claiming a connection to Irish heritage and tradition today should consider the Republic of Ireland's ongoing transition toward a more secular, liberal, and multicultural democracy.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
3/11/2022
Why Does St. Brigid Get So Much Less Attention than Patrick?
by Lisa Bitel
"This year on March 17, when you’re wearing the green and singing “Dirty Ol’ Town,” take a moment to whisper thanks to St. Brigid, the compassionate, sensible, native-born patron saint of Ireland, and ask if Ireland’s premier patron saint should be a woman."
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SOURCE: BBC
2/22/2022
Excavation at Mass Grave in County Galway Could Begin This Year
The remains of children buried in a mass unmarked grave in Tuam, County Galway, could be exhumed later this year under newly-published legislation.
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1/30/2022
At 50th Anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" Peace Feels Less Certain
by Mark Holan
A hometown headline 50 years ago introduced the author to the Troubles in Northern Ireland; at the anniversary of Derry's "Bloody Sunday" a hard-won peace feels precarious.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
12/16/2021
Beware Prophecies of Civil War
by Fintan O'Toole
Northern Ireland's history shows how "premonitions of civil war served not as portents to be heeded, but as a warrant for carnage," as a seemingly inevitable mass conflict justifies and normalizes smaller-scale political violence as an everyday phenomenon.
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SOURCE: Irish Times
11/26/2021
Can an Official Government Account of Northern Ireland's Troubles be Credible?
"What is needed is not “official” history, but a decision to properly open sensitive archival material to facilitate the writing of evidence-based history. The political will to facilitate that is highly unlikely to materialise."
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9/12/2021
Memo From Irish History: Welcome to Your Future, American Women
by Laura Weinstein
After sustained public outcry, the Republic of Ireland looked to its history of horrific treatment and preventable death of girls and women under its draconian abortion laws and said "enough." Will this example change the course American states like Texas are poised to follow?
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9/5/2021
Review: Heroes of Ireland's Great Hunger
by Alan J. Singer
Christine Kinealy and her co-editors enlist top scholars from both sides of the Atlantic to highlight the stories of individuals and who led efforts for hunger relief against the opposition of the British government.
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7/25/2021
Explaining the Different Post-Colonial Trajectories of Ireland and Haiti
by Alan J. Singer
"The divergent paths of Haiti and Ireland are rooted in the history of 19th century European colonialism, European and American racism, and the very different alternatives offered to the people of the former colonies for the last two hundred plus years."
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6/13/2021
American Conference for Irish Studies Connects the Past, Future of Irish-American Relations
by Mark Holan
The recent virtual American Conference for Irish Studies meeting convened scholars and diplomats to discuss challenges posed by Brexit and opportunities for cooperation between the United States, Northern Ireland, and the Republic.
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SOURCE: Irish Times
5/24/2021
Execution of 13 IRA volunteers in 1921 may have been a war crime, says UCC historian
"Men should have been treated as prisoners of war, according to historian Gabriel Doherty of University College Cork."
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