‘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 shows 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