Ireland

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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 Journal
  3/16/2022
  

  St. Patrick's Story Should Make Us Consider How Ireland Treats Refugees

  by Elizabeth Boyle

  Both the legacy of St. Patrick and attention to a new wave of Ukrainian refugees should make the Republic of Ireland reconsider how it welcomes refugees from around the world. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  5/5/2021
  

  Except for the Miracles

  by Olúfémi Táíwò

  "The deciding aspect of politics over these next crucial years will turn on battles against overwhelmingly powerful foes who will try to prevent radical redistribution of resources," writes Olúfémi Táíwò. The legacy of two radicals, in Ireland and Kenya, show the value of partial victory and learning from defeat. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  3/7/2021
  

  Trinity College Reckons with Slavery Links as Ireland Confronts Collusion with Empire

  Dublin's Trinity College is undertaking a review of its institutional ties to slavery, a project that involves acknowledging the participation of Irish merchants in the Atlantic slave trade. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  

  Irish President Attacks 'Feigned Amnesia' over British Imperialism

  “I am struck by a disinclination,” he says, “in both academic and journalistic accounts to critique empire and imperialism. Openness to, and engagement in, a critique of nationalism has seemed greater.

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• 12/13/2020
  

  Will Biden Shake Up a Century of US-Ireland Relations?

  by Mark Holan

  As the second Irish-American Catholic president, Joe Biden may be expected to sprinkle his speeches with lines from Seamus Heaney, but he's likely to tread a moderate path as issues like Brexit test the Irish-American relationship. 

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• SOURCE: Irish Times
  11/30/2020
  

  ‘Bodies Left for Weeks. People Eaten by Dogs’: A New Documentary on the Irish Famine

  “The British abandoned people to starvation,” says Prof Kevin Whelan of the University of Notre Dame. “At the highest level of government there was a sense that this ultimately wasn’t their problem”. A new Irish television documentary is narrated by Liam Neeson.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/3/2020
  

  John Hume, Nobel Laureate for Work in Northern Ireland, Dies at 83

  "In the parlance of Northern Ireland, Mr. Hume was a “nationalist” whose dream of a reunited Ireland had no place for the violence embraced by “republicans” like the I.R.A., with its armed fighters and networks of financiers, bomb-makers and sympathizers in the region and in the United States."

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• 8/2/2020
  

  The History of the Boycott Shows a Real Cancel Culture

  by Mark Holan

  Authors, academics, musicians, and others bothered by their work being “cancelled” might consider the original boycott for some needed perspective.

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• 6/7/2020
  

  Mourning in America

  by Ed Simon

  Historically the powerful have described deaths from disease and starvation as "natural" to hide the political nature of suffering and their own responsibility. To mourn is to fight this erasure.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/5/2020
  

  Irish Return an Old Favor, Helping Native Americans Battling the Virus

  More than 170 years ago, the Choctaw Nation sent $170 to starving Irish families during the potato famine. Now hundreds of Irish people are repaying that old kindness.

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• 1/26/20
  

  History & Law: GW History Professor Jennifer Wells Discusses How Her Study of Law Has Informed her Career in History

  by Mark Detlor

  "I’m more much analytical as a result of law and try to immediately make an assertion and back it up with evidence when I write; I think it’s a very effective way of writing but I’m not sure that I would have mastered it had I not gone to law school."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/6/19
  

  Why a 1972 Northern Ireland murder matters so much to historians

  by Donald M. Beaudette and Laura Weinstein

  A recent trial is an example of when historical truth and legal accountability diverge.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  10/25/19
  

  How Jack O’Lanterns Originated in Irish Myth

  The name, jack-o'-lantern, comes from an Irish folktale about a man named Stingy Jack.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/1/19
  

  Expecting Ireland to be servile is part of a long British tradition

  by Richard McMahon

  The Brexit crisis is another example of how the UK so often ignores the consequences of its conduct on its neighbour.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  3/17/19
  

  On St. Patrick's Day, remember how anti-immigrant history repeats itself

  33 million Americans claim Irish heritage and yet we have not learned from 19th century nativism. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7-13-18
  

  In Ireland, Drought and a Drone Revealed the Outline of an Ancient Henge

  Author Anthony Murphy was flying a drone near Newgrange, a famous prehistoric stone monument in County Meath, taking pictures of the known archaeological attractions. Then he saw something strange — a perfect circle, etched in the color of the crops.

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• SOURCE: The Sunday Times
  8-23-15
  

  Historian loses legal battle to name past British informers

  Barry Keane, the author of Massacre in West Cork, wanted to obtain the names of informants who worked against Irish secret societies between 1892 and 1910.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  3-17-15
  

  “Too small a change”: How St. Patrick’s Day became a political lightning rod

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Organizers of St. Patrick's Day parade say it's about celebrating "Irish heritage and culture." Here's the problem.