Religion and Rebellion: Historical Studies, Judith Devlin and Ronan Fanning (eds.). (University College Dublin Press, £35) ISBN 1900621037 A History of the Church of Ireland, 1691-1996 Alan Acheson (Columba Press, APCK, £25) ISBN 185607210X

Religion and Rebellion contains the proceedings of the twenty-second biennial Irish Conference of Historians, held in May 1995. The title is not an exact description of the contents. Only a few of the essays deal with ‘rebellion’ in the usual sense of the word: violent resistance to established authority. ‘Religion, rebellion, dissent, and social protest’ ... Read more