Nick Maxwell LIN ROSE CLARK Lilliput Press €18.95 ISBN 978184351-9218 REVIEWED BY Brian Hanley Brian Hanley is Assistant Professor of Twentieth-Century Irish History in Trinity College, Dublin. In the epilogue to this book, Lin Rose Clark tells of a postcard that her grandfather, Robert Hilliard, had sent to her grandmother, Rosemary. Hilliard had sent it from Spain, … Read more
DAMIAN SHIELS LSU Press $50 ISBN 9780807183700 REVIEWED BY Daniel Mulhall Daniel Mulhall is a former Irish ambassador to the USA whose latest publication is Pilgrim soul: W.B. Yeats and the Ireland of his time (New Island Books, 2023). The American Civil War was a hinge in US history, dividing the staider antebellum period from … Read more
CHRISTOPHER CLARK Penguin Books £18.99 ISBN 9780141988313 REVIEWED BY Eoin Dillon Eoin Dillon is an independent scholar. Europe erupted in 1848. Starting in Palermo in January, an unplanned but deeply rooted and popular revolt broke out, and royal reinforcements, sent from the mainland, where liberal and radical forces had also asserted themselves, failed to retake … Read more
WILLIAM NOLAN and KIERAN O’CONOR (eds) Geography Publications €60 ISBN 9780906602676 EILEEN MURPHY and COLM DONNELLY (eds) Geography Publications €60 ISBN 9780906602621 REVIEWED BY Arnold Horner Sligo and Antrim represent the final volumes in a project that was initiated four decades ago with the appearance of Tipperary: history and society (1985; reprinted 1997), edited by … Read more
By Daragh Fitzgerald The recent commencement of excavations at the site of the former mother-and-baby home in Tuam brings into stark light one of the most sinister outworkings of the rise and dominance of the Catholic Church in Ireland, a process that took off in the nineteenth century, particularly after the Famine. Sarah Roddy’s Money … Read more