The Supreme Court: the judges, the decisions, the rifts and the rivalries that have shaped Ireland

RUADHÁN MAC CORMAIC Penguin Ireland €27.99 ISBN 9781844883400 Reviewed by: Vincent Browne In this superb history of the Supreme Court, author Ruadhán Mac Cormaic describes the casual transference of the English legal system and ethos—the common law tradition—into the ethos of the new state, with a few minor and insignificant changes that occurred right at … Read more

Frontiers, states and identity in early modern Ireland and beyond: essays in honour of Steven G. Ellis

CHRISTOPHER MAGINN and GERALD POWER (eds) Four Courts Press €55 ISBN 9781846826054 Reviewed by: David Edwards David Edwards is Senior Lecturer in History at University College Cork. For 40 years Steven Ellis has been a significant figure in the history of late medieval and early modern Ireland. An authority on the Tudor monarchy, specialising particularly … Read more