“Deference and diffidence… led to insufficient decisive action or even clear and pointed warnings.” – Patrick Honohan, 2010  “It was a period where I bought into a system of regulation that didn't wo...

Born in the village of Scarriff, in Ireland’s County Clare, wobbly logger James McInerney died in Walla Walla prison from meningitis and neglect on August 13, 1930. Jailed for ‘murder’ in the Centr…

Blood and Honour was a national socialist (Nazi) music organisation run by Ian Stuart Donaldson of the band Skrewdriver ((since, happily, deceased in a car crash). It developed out of the National …

For several months the REVIEW has been receiving requests from all over the United States for a Course in Marxian Economics. Comrades have advised us that almost every local in the country has been…

Immigrants label Jim O’Callaghan’s proposed changes, including an eight-year wait before applying, as ‘performative’ and a ‘distraction’

Ryan and O’Donnell O’Donnell and Ryan, left-wing leaders of the I.R.A. speaking for the Irish Republican Congress, forcefully reject De Valera’s 1937 ‘Republican’ Cons…

The Secretary of the recently-established Socialist Party of Ireland on their election campaign in the Royal Exchange Ward of Dublin’s municipal elections. ‘Dublin Proletariat Strike Class No…

There was a great cartoon in the New Yorker Magazine in 1993 by Peter Steiner that showed a drawing of two dogs, one sitting in front of a computer with a paw on the keyboard as if typing, and the oth...

Echoes of Ireland’s Civil War ten years later. After its first unstable, minority government was dissolved in late, 1932, Fianna Fail under Éamon de Valera increased its vote, forming a major…

The 20th release of MSPC material contains new first-hand evidence relating to an attempted massacre of five IRA prisoners in County Kerry on 7 March 1923. It occurred on the same day that the Nati…

This week as wildfires raged across Europe an image which will surely become a photo for the ages made the news. It was taken by Maximillian Lamy and distributed by AFP/Getty Images. It depicts a coup...

James Larkin at Liberty Hall with his secretary Mrs. McKeon during the Lockout A wonderful essay by Larkin introducing REVIEW readers to the ethos of the Underman and the history of the Irish Trans…

O’Flaherty worked in many newspaper genres–daily columnist, short story writer, editorialist, investigative reporter–all with his own unmistakable style. Here he travels to way up…

Fascist Blueshirts on parade. MacManus on the 1933 formation of today’s Fine Gael party, one of Ireland’s primary capitalist parties through the merger of the Pro-treaty Cumann na nGaed…

‘We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings,’’ Ursula K Le Guin. Around a decade or so ago I was ...

On 5 July 1909, the imprisoned suffragette Marion Wallace Dunlop, a sculptor and illustrator, went on hunger strike; pretty much inventing the tactic as a modern political weapon. A member of the W…

Sir,—With regard to ‘James Connolly in India?’ (Letters, HI 34.3, May/June 2026), John Connolly did not serve with the King’s Liverpool Regiment. His army file (he used the name ‘James Reid’, not ‘Joh...

The internationalist backbone of British socialism was partly forged in the sweatshops and print rooms of London’s East End at the turn of the 20th century.

George Lansbury, Labour MP for Bow and Bromley, peace activist, opponent of the Boer War and World War 1, and probably the most leftwing leader the Labour Party ever had (without exception), was al…