Other Writings

Reviews

I feel strongly about the way stories of minorities are written and framed, be it in broadsheet or scholarly journal. The writing of history of the Jewish presence in Ireland presents many conundrums and challenges. A few thoughts on this in these reviews.

Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socio-Economic History by Cormac Ó Gráda

Irish Questions and Jewish Questions, eds Aidan Beatty

Jews in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Refugees, Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust

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Essays

Irish Times

Elegy for a Disappearing Community

Talking About A Revolution

In search of the real Anne Frank

Who Shot Emanuel Kahn?

Writers Mosaic

Close Up- A Time to Speak, Helen Lewis

Storm or Shelter? An essay on cultural influences

Dublin Review of Books

How to Disappear Eyes Wide Open On the Precipice

The Gift Spanish Sketches Rights and Wrongs

Witness to War Voices from the Chorus Laughter from the Grave

History in a Shoebox Gerald Dawe An Appreciation

History Workshop

Irish Writers of the 1930s in the Archives Radical History

Other Publications

I have contributed the introduction and an essay to Reimagining the Jews of Ireland- Historiography, Identity and Representation