Irish Republican Army

SH dates his first, ignorant, encounter with history from the time that as a very small child he met American soldiers who were stationed nearby and training for the imminent Normandy landings of June 1944...

MG occasionally contributed to the Workers' Republic (1898-1916), founded by James Connolly , with whom she wrote and distributed a pamphlet entitled The Rights of Life and the Rights of Property, 1897. She also...

The production and reception of this text was heavily influenced by the political climate of the time. EOB 's preparations for writing it included interviewing Dominic McGlinchey , the imprisoned former leader of the INLA...

After IRA death threats against BM 's father , her mother took her children from Ireland to Sweden for two years, after which the parents decided on London as a permanent home.

Once again she returns to her experience on the penitential pilgrimage to St Patrick's Purgatory. She revisits her complaints about Heaney 's depiction of the feminine, but this time she focuses on Francis Hughes

This novel touches on the squatters theme which LC had used in Desirable Residence. Here the police receive an anonymous tip-off that unusual behaviour is going on at two large, dilapidated and divided Victorian...

In these lectures SH again concerned himself closely with the poet's obligations to society and to humankind. The first lecture, from which the 1995 volume is titled, sets out to show how poetry's existence at...

It appeared in the Gollancz Detection series. The title comes from a police announcement dating from 1981, requesting members of the public to report any unusual behaviour in the interests of catching IRA terrorists.

Heaney, as a Catholic , came under political pressure to denounce British rule in Northern Ireland and to celebrate the IRA . But he continued to see two sides to the question, to admire certain...

The play's title is a near-translation of the phrase Sinn Féin (we ourselves, name of the political party committed to ending British rule in Ireland). AD emphasises the relationship between the political and...

Her daughter quotes from the radio play a passage about a child listening at night to the noises made by an IRA crowd in the street: the singing and cheering . . . . an...

She barely mentions her husband or her extreme feelings of loss she felt at his death. She spends more time discussing her children in this volume than in any before: she writes of her sons...

The Irish DM had difficulty trying to correct the local opinions on Northern Ireland: ironically, the fiercely anti-Russian Romanians implicitly believed the Soviet depiction of the IRA as freedom fighters and Northern Ireland as another...