Tag Archives: Irish history

Henry Glassie’s All Silver and No Brass: An Irish Christmas Mumming

Posted on 16th June 2016 by Jack Merry

Mumm me moe mummers! — James Joyce’s  Finnegan’s Wake The midwinter celebration, known variously as Christmas, Yule, Saturnalia, Winter Solstice, and so forth, has a very, very long history. No one’s really sure how long ago humans first recognized the winter … Continue reading →

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Angela Bourke’s The Burning of Bridget Cleary

Posted on 8th March 2016 by Kim Bates

I never had a chance to prove them wrong, My time was short, the story long.– Oysterband’s “The Oxford Girl” So much has been written about the world of the fairies — the otherworld that we apprehend through bits of … Continue reading →

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Joan Huff and Marian Yeates’ The Cooper’s Wife is Missing

Posted on 8th March 2016 by Diverse Voices

John O’Regan wrote this review. The term ‘Witch Burning’, generally speaking, is one that recalls a method of torture used to rid the local area of a person with an evil spirit, or one who is guided by bad influences … Continue reading →

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Those troublesome Irish: Three books on Irish rebellions

Posted on 15th November 1999 by Gary Whitehouse

If you wanted to take a short course in the history of Irish rebellion — a subject as old as a peat bog and as contemporary as today’s news — you could do much worse than to read these three … Continue reading →

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