Joseph E. A. Connell Jr

Joe is a regular visitor to Ireland. This gives him the opportunity to maintain contact with 21st Century Ireland and also the many Irish friends and colleagues he has come to know through the years. In 2006 Dublin City Council, in association with Four Courts Press, published Joe’s “Where’s Where in Dublin” as their official commemoration volume for the 90th anniversary of the Easter Rising. His second book, the critically acclaimed “Dublin in Rebellion”, was published by Lilliput Press in 2009, and has become an essential reference source for all who study Dublin 1913-24. Joe also has written several books for Kilmainham Tales, including the best-selling “Ministering to Republicans,” about the priests, mainly Capuchins, who ministered to the spiritual needs of the rebels during the Easter Rising, War of Independence and the Civil War, “Unequal Patriots,” about some of the women involved in the Irish freedom struggle, “Teaching Rebels,” which looks at the role of education, teachers and pupils in the early revolutionary years of the 20th century, and “Who Killed Michael Collins?”, examining one of the most controversial events in Irish history.