He’ll have brought it on Himself
Colm Tóibín, 22 May 1997
Sex, Nation and Dissent in Irish Writing
edited by Éibhear Walshe.
Cork, 210 pp., £40, April 1997,1 85918 013 2 Show More
edited by Éibhear Walshe.
Cork, 210 pp., £40, April 1997,
Gooddbye to Catholic Ireland
by Mary Kenny.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 320 pp., £20, March 1997,1 85619 751 4 Show More
by Mary Kenny.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 320 pp., £20, March 1997,
“... it is a history of coercion and control. The figure who emerges from it most strongly is John Charles McQuaid, the Archbishop of Dublin between 1940 and 1972, who stopped Noel Browne, the Minister for Health in 1951, from introducing a health scheme for mothers, thereby bringing down the Government, and who insisted that ... ”