MAURICE J. CASEY Footnote Press £15 ISBN 9781804441183 REVIEWED BY Brian Trench Brian Trench is a former lecturer in the School of Communications, DCU. By the mid-1920s, as communist ambitions shrank to socialism in one country, the role of the Comintern, became primarily that of defending the Soviet Union. In this context, leading figures in … Read more
NIAMH HOWLIN (ed.) Four Courts Press€55ISBN 9781801511377 REVIEWED BYJames K. Meighan James K. Meighan is a solicitor and holds a Ph.D from the University of Limerick. This book has been published by the Irish Legal History Society to celebrate the centenary of the original architecture of the modern Irish judiciary. The Courts of Justice Act … Read more
PERRY ANDERSON Verso £30 ISBN 9781804297674 REVIEWED BY Eoin Dilllon Eoin Dillon is an independent scholar. Disputing disaster is Perry Anderson’s account of six historians of the First World War: Frenchman Pierre Renouvin (1893–1974), Italian Luigi Albertini (1871–1941), German Fritz Fischer (1908–99), Englishman Keith Wilson (1944–2018), Australian Christopher Clark (1960–) and American Paul Schroeder (1927–2020). … Read more
HELENE O’KEEFFE, JOHN CROWLEY, DONAL O’DRISCEOIL, JOHN BORGONOVO and MIKE MURPHY (eds) Cork University Press €69 ISBN 9781782055921 REVIEWED BY Charles Lysaght Nobody in nationalist Ireland felt proud of the Civil War that followed hard upon independence in 1922. Unlike the War of Independence, it produced no heroes. Neither side could be happy with its … Read more
By Daragh Fitzgerald As we approach the 100th anniversary of the Boundary Commission and the end of the Decade of Centenaries, it is worth reflecting on Laura McAtackney’s insight that commemoration is the ‘deliberate act of remembering the past, at a particular time and place, as a symbolic act in the present’. Shifting relations with … Read more