Conor Mulvagh: Eoin MacNeill: The pen and the sword [2022] hardback Condition:New then you need to read

then you need to read this

I am still grappling with this most humbling of commands

that will never be lived in again

'Absolutely impossible to put down

He has left each of them a clue to their true heritage

Conor Mulvagh: Eoin MacNeill: The pen and the sword [2022] hardback Condition:New then you need to readEoin MacNeill (1867 1945) was a founding figure in the Gaelic League, the Irish Volunteers, and the government of Ireland. As Professor of Early (including Mediaeval) History at University College Dublin was also one of the foremost Irish historians of his generation. As a professor, a politician, and the leader of a paramilitary organisation, MacNeill fused scholarship and activism into a complex life that both followed and led the course of Irish