Modernisation: crisis and culture in Ireland 1969-1992

Conor McCarthy (Four Courts Press,E45) ISBN 1851824758 The notion that Ireland is wracked by an unprecedented cultural crisis has become a new orthodoxy accepted both by the side-bar columnists of the Irish Times and the cosmopolitan academic elite. The theoretical basis for this approach was located in the Anglo-American disciplines of cultural studies and post-colonial … Read more

The Politics of Irish Education, 1920-65

Sean Farren (Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast, £16.50) ISBN 0853895953 This is a thought provoking study. Sean Farren provides us not only with an insight into developments in the schools in both Northern Ireland and the Free State/Republic of Ireland, but shows the extent to which the schools were used by political and … Read more

Die doppelte Konfessionalisierung in Irland [Duel Confessionalisation in Ireland]

Ute Lotz-Heumann (Mohr Siebeck, DM198) ISBN 3161474295 In 1605 Landgrave Maurice of Hesse-Kassel converted to Calvinism. This act, initially based on the landgrave’s private faith, had far-reaching consequences for his territory, which thirteen years later became entangled in the Thirty Years War, and for his traditionally Lutheran subjects. In a series of ordinances Maurice tried … Read more