Nick Maxwell By Antóin O’Callaghan On the north-western hills overlooking Cork city stands St Vincent’s Church, Sunday’s Well, home to the Vincentian Order until their departure from the city in 2016. Opened in 1856, the building of St Vincent’s began in the years following Catholic Emancipation, and the rising structure became a powerful symbol of the growing … Read more
By Danny Ó Seachnasaigh The partial failure of the potato crop in 1845 heralded the beginning of what has come to be known globally as the Great Irish Famine or Great Hunger, An Gorta Mór. In the following year of 1846 the potato crop would fail totally, with 1847 being forever cemented in the Irish … Read more
DIARMAID FERRITER Profile Books £25 ISBN 9781800810945 REVIEWED BY Brian Girvin Brian Girvin is Honorary Professor of Contemporary Politics at the University of Glasgow. Most people reading Diarmaid Ferriter’s new book will have encountered at least some of the incidents and controversies detailed here but will have done so from very different perspectives. The one … Read more
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