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RICHARD KIRKLAND Bloomsbury £85 ISBN 9781350133181 Reviewed by Angus Mitchell Angus Mitchell is a historian and lives in Limerick. In his contribution to Glór Ulladh 1893–1943, the Belfast singer and writer Cathal O’Byrne remembered: ‘When we went to London to give a series of folk-song recitals, we were the honoured guests of a dinner party … Read more

MYLES CAMPBELL (ed.) Irish Academic Press €45 ISSN 9781788551355 Reviewed by Sylvie Kleinman Sylvie Kleinman is Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of History, Trinity College, Dublin. When Mary Robinson addressed us at her inauguration in St Patrick’s Hall, Dublin Castle, in 1990, she voiced the wish to see women who had felt outside of … Read more

DAMIEN DUFFY Boydell Press £75 ISBN 9781783275939 Reviewed by Gillian Kenny Gillian Kenny is a research fellow at the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, Trinity College, Dublin. This book is dedicated to two women, the grandmothers of the author. In their honour, Damien Duffy has constructed a fascinating and engaging work focused on the … Read more

NICHOLAS CANNY Oxford University Press £90 ISBN 9780198808961 Reviewed by John Gibney This book arose, as its author admits in the very first line, ‘by accident rather than design’. Nicholas Canny is one of the small group of historians who revolutionised the study of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ireland from the 1960s onwards. His work was … Read more

By Joe Culley @TheRealCulls In the cover story of our previous edition, Laurence Geary explained that vaccination in Ireland is often said to have begun in Cork in 1800 when a local physician treated 300 children against smallpox. How appropriate, then, that Cork again features as ground zero in Strangling angel: diphtheria and childhood immunization … Read more