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Portobello Notebook
Terror in Ireland 1916–1923
Adrian Kenny
David Fitzpatrick, editor
These stories are set in Portobello, on the edge of Dublin city, just inside the canal. Its characters are like that – on the edge of life: Michael, the country boy who drowns himself; Harry, the old Jewish dealer living alone; Liam, the simple emigrant returning on a visit. Through their eyes, we follow the author’s progress. Old friends are met, in loss or renewal, making or trying to make fresh starts, or looking back though the glass of time. Disappointment, happiness and uncertainty lead to the realization that this place has become what the author had always thought was elsewhere – his home. Written over the past thirty years, together they form a greater story – that of one man’s life in one place.
The practice of terror in revolutionary Ireland remains a highly controversial topic, which seldom receives balanced and dispassionate treatment. This collection of essays in memory of Peter Hart (1963–2010), by Brian Hanley, Anne Dolan, Eunan O’Halpin, Jane Leonard, Thomas Earls FitzGerald and others, illuminates the origins, forms and consequences of terror, whether practised by republicans or government forces. It is the fifth production of the Trinity History Workshop, an informal group of academic historians, research students, and undergraduates associated with Trinity College Dublin. Anybody interested in the Irish Revolution will find provocation and enlightenment in this book. Its purpose is not to assign blame, but to offer multiple perspectives on one of the most contentious periods of Irish history.
Adrian Kenny, born in Dublin in 1945, was educated at Gonzaga College and University College Dublin. He has worked as an English teacher in Ireland and abroad, and as a freelance journalist and broadcaster. The Family Business, an autobiography, was published by The Lilliput Press in 1999.
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€9.99 pb 160 pages illustrated 978-1-84351-202-8
David Fitzpatrick is Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin and is author of several works relating to Ireland in the twentieth century.
€14.99 pb 224 pages illustrated 978-1-84351-199-1