New Video: Diarmaid Ferriter on Eoin MacNeill
Part 3 of the Eoin MacNeill: Revolutionary and Scholar series features a video presentation on the life and career of Eoin MacNeill by Professor Diarmaid Ferriter of UCD.
The legacy of Eoin MacNeill
Regardless of the effectiveness of his leadership, MacNeill’s decisive role in the formation of the Volunteers is a significant legacy and given that the Volunteers metamorphosed into the IRA that fought the war of independence, his stance on violence is particularly worthy of assessment.
The North Began
In one (narrow) sense the Irish Revolution began when Eoin MacNeill wrote ‘The North Began’. His article, published in An Claidheamh Soluis on 1 November 1913, triggered the foundation of the Irish Volunteers and precipitated the militarisation of nationalist Ireland.
Condolences – Irish reactions to John F. Kennedy’s assassination
On the early evening of Friday 22 November a stunned Ireland learned that President Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas. The President’s visit to Ireland only five months earlier had captured the imagination of every man, woman and child in the country. Now their icon was dead. Taoiseach Sean Lemass’s Private Secretary Ronan O’Foghlú found …
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History & Policy: Seanad Special
The purpose of this series of papers is to offer a constructive dialogue between history – understood as both ‘the past’ and ‘the discipline’ – and policy.
