In this article from 1922, author Herbert Thurston provides a scathing rebuttal of Margaret Murray’s The Witch-Cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology – in large part against her dubious use of sources; her… Read the Article »On Witchcraft
In 1928, Irish author and academic Violet Conolly published ‘Two Months in Soviet Russia’ between December 1928 and March 1929. Broad in scope, the author provided her first-hand experiences as she travelled from Reval (now… Read the Article »Soviet Russia Revisited
In this extract from his 1951 article, author J. J. W. Murphy (CSsR) provides an historical background to early Irish involvement in peacekeeping efforts in Palestine; specifically during the years immediately preceding the formal establishment… Read the Article »Irishmen in Palestine: 1946-48
In this review-cum-historical-account from the Summer 2015 edition of Studies, Tom Mooney discusses the background to the European premier of Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Silent Night at the Wexford Festival Opera, alongside a history of Wexford’s… Read the Article »“Silent Night” – Wexford, Opera, and the First World War
‘Two Months in Soviet Russia’ was penned in 1928 by Irish author and academic Violet Conolly, and published across two volumes of Studies in December 1928 and March 1929. A follow-up penned by Conolly nearly… Read the Article »Two Months in Soviet Russia
Written one year after Mussolini’s March on Rome, and published four months after the Corfu Incident, Virginia M. Crawford’s ‘The Rise of Fascism and What It Stands For’ is a contemporary analysis of the political… Read the Article »Virginia Crawford on the rise of Italian Fascism
The summer 1972 issue of Studies published a lengthy and highly controversial article attacking Padraig Pearse as a destructive ideologue who had perverted the Christian message, especially in relation to sacrifice and redemption, to make… Read the Article »Francis Shaw and ‘The Canon of Irish History’
In 1933, Irish diplomat Daniel Binchy wrote a scathing report on Adolf Hitler, the newly elected Chancellor of Germany, in Studies. The extract below reveals how Binchy not only disapproved of Hitler’s racial theory, but… Read the Article »Daniel Binchy on Adolf Hitler
In 1896, Patrick Pearse joined Douglas Hyde’s Gaelic League, which had as its principal aim ‘the necessity for de-Anglicising Ireland’ – the title of an address Hyde delivered in 1892. Pearse believed passionately that the… Read the Article »The superiority of Irish literature
On 10 September 1923, the Irish Free State – not even one full year in existence – joined the League of Nations. On that day, a delegation led by William T Cosgrave, president of the… Read the Article »Ireland joins the league of nations