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Roy Foster

Roy Foster is an Irish historian and academic whose books include Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890–1923.

How Ireland’s violent history haunts The Banshees of Inisherin

Martin McDonagh’s Oscar-nominated film is set during the bloody conflict of 1922, but it is not a neat metaphor for civil war.

By Roy Foster

How Ireland’s violent history haunts The Banshees of Inisherin

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Burning the bastards out

The destruction of country houses in the Irish revolution can be seen as the last stage of a long…

By Roy Foster

Ireland’s forever wars

A new book chronicles the killings that shaped a nation.

By Roy Foster

If the dead could talk, what would they say? The Dirty Dust gives voice to the buried

Alan Titley's translation of Máirtín Ó Cadhain's Cré na Cille brings us a novel entirely in dialogue - and set in…

By Roy Foster

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