Farrell, So once was I: forgotten tales from Glasnevin Cemetery

WARREN FARRELL Merrion Press €19.99 ISBN 9781785375125 REVIEWED BY John Gibney John Gibney is Assistant Editor with the Royal Irish Academy’s Documents on Irish Foreign Policy programme and was formerly Education and Outreach Officer at Glasnevin Cemetery Museum. The subtitle of Warren Farrell’s So once was I: forgotten tales from Glasnevin Cemetery is inevitably eye-catching, … Read more

Mannion, Anglicizing Tudor Connacht:the expansion of English rule in the lordships of Clanrickard and Hy Many

JOSEPH MANNION Four Courts Press €55 ISBN 9781801511209 REVIEWED BY Simon Egan Simon Egan is a lecturer in Medieval Irish History at Queen’s University Belfast. This very welcome book by Joseph Mannion offers the first monograph-length study of the impact of English colonisation on Connacht during one of the most formative periods in Irish history, … Read more