John Mitchel

Pádraig Pearse: Preparing for the ‘end times’

Long a Gaelic revivalist, Pearse was a latecomer to politics and gunfire, his unfortunate brother an even later one

Spike Island off Cork coast for €5m redevelopment

Local authority plans to transform the island into a major tourism and heritage centre

Sharp lessons for contemporary campaigners: Frederick Douglass in Ireland by Laurence Fenton

Review: Douglass, an escaped slave forced to flee the US in 1845, was so moved by the poverty he saw in Famine-era Ireland that he felt he must speak out against the causes of human suffering generally

What books define Ireland for you?

A new book lists 31 definitive texts. Are the authors right? And what should be the 32nd?

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