104 Years of Same Old Same Old It’s been 104 years since we first elected a Fine Gael government (and I know it had a different name then). We first elected a Fianna Fáil government 92 years ago. We’ve had a century in which power was shared by Fine Gael and Fianna...
Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator, by Paul Corner, Oxford University Press, 179 pp, £20, ISBN: 978-0192866646The Pope At War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini & Hitler, by David I Kertzer, Oxford University Press, 621 pp, £25,...
Today is the International Day of Memory. We remember not just the six to eight million Jews killed by the Nazis but all of those who died in the gas-chambers and work camps, in the massacres, in the torture chambers. They included communists, socialists, anarchists,...
Blood and Power, The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism by John Foot, Bloomsbury Publishing, 416 pp, £25, ISBN 13: 978-1408897942 ‘They haven’t gone away…’ In a recent article in The Guardian, John Foot suggested that the extreme right was about to win the general...
by Chiara Tagliaferri* Translated by William Wall Chiara Tagliaferri a Ventotene Imagining a prison is easy, we all have in mind what a cell looks like: bars on the window, a couple of cots (usually bunk beds), a small desk, a sink, a few posters hanging on the walls...
