Irish Literary Supplement articles

Recent articles from Irish Literary Supplement

The story of a shame.(Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment)(Book review)
March 22, 2009... JAMES M. SMITH Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment. University of Notre Dame Press, 2007, $28.00. A SECRET SHAME of post-independent Ireland was its treatment f unwed mothers and children born out of wedlock, particularly their...

Casting a blind aye.(An Irish Eye)(Book review)
March 22, 2009... GERRY ADAMS An Irish Eye Dingle: Brandon Books; Dufour Editions, 2007 ENCOMPASSING WHAT MAY WELL turn out to be one of the most important three-year periods in Northern Irish history, Gerry Adams's An Irish Eye is a fascinating, if at times uneven, collection of short writings....

From Ballykilcline to Rutland.(Ballykilcline Rising: From Famine Ireland To Immigrant America)(Book review)
March 22, 2009... MARY LEE DUNN Ballykilcline Rising: From Famine Ireland To Immigrant America Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008, $29.95 Paper, $80 Cloth IN Ballykilcline Rising." From Famine Ireland to Immigrant America, Mary Lee Dunn uses a wide variety of primary sources such as...

Representations of Bloody Sunday.(After Bloody Sunday: Representation, Ethics, Justice)(Book review)
March 22, 2009... TOM HERRON AND JOHN LYNCH After Bloody Sunday: Representation, Ethics, Justice Cork University Press, 2007 IN THE INTRODUCTION TO After Bloody Sunday Tom Herron and John Lynch begin by asking "Why another book on Bloody Sunday?" As they themselves remind the reader, the story of...

Becoming Irish in Detroit City.(Life with Mae: A Detroit Family Memoir)(Book review)
March 22, 2009... NEAL SHINE Life with Mae A Detroit Family Memoir Wayne State University Press, 2007, $24.95 BORN IN 1909, a native of Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim, Mary Ellen (Mae) Conlon was a servant in the town's upper-class homes; her father operated a Guiness distribution depot....